Re: Debian Questions on apt-get
On 11/06/11 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi
>> about the merits of vi :-)
>
> I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;)
It wasn't meant to be :-)
I am completely ignorant of aptitude so I figured, in deference to those
that aren't, I'd solicit their imput (hell, I might even learn something).
Thanks.
> aptitude can do almost everything apt-get/apt-cache can do, but:
>
> + has very powerful search patterns
> + has an interactive mode (text or GUI), which I find very useful
> especially for complicated upgrades (not rare with Debian unstable), but
> also for other tasks
> - the search is slower
> - sometimes the first suggested course of action is sub-optimal, more
> often in interactive mode
> - aptitude has a few annoying bugs (like loosing 'automatically
> installed' or 'hold' state in some cases)
>
> I like combining them to get the best of both. This was not recommended
> a few releases ago, but currently the only issue I know of is that they
> store information on held packages differently. All other databases
> (available packages, automatically installed, ...) are shared.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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