Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

[Freeman <hewho7@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 03:30:40AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

. . .
> 
> I use aptitude (which will grow a GTK interface in Squeeze) for all my package 
> management, but I'm glad to see APT get more featureful.  It's also nice to 
> see Aptitude work more seamlessly with APT.
> 
. . .

I am apprehensive about that GTK interface. It doesn't look ready to me.

Mine comes up with a terminal spouting lines like

libglade-WARNING **: could not look up stock id '_Forget New Packages'

for all the menu items.

Inevitably the window freezes and stops redrawing on some function and I
have to "killall aptitude". Last time it was when I tried to open a
"dependencies" tab within a package info dialog. It froze on "parsing
changelog." I haven't completed a session with aptitude GTK since it was
only available in experimental.

It is a great looking thing: the info access of Synaptic, the functions of
Aptitude.

I'll hang on to aptitude-curses out of familiarity for a year or more
anyway.

I am perfectly happy with aptitude-curses, and apt-get/aptitude at the
command line.

-- 
Regards,
Freeman

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