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Re: aptitude vs apt-get (was ... Re: mount cdrom?)



On Vi, 19 oct 12, 08:05:46, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> 
> Oh well. I mean obviously people are free to use what they want, I
> just cannot understand why anyone would use apt-* when there is
> aptitude. And 90% of the time I use interactive mode, which doesn't
> exist *at all* in apt-*, and when I do use the CLI, one command for
> installing searching, etc. is more convent than several.

As a heavy aptitude user I use apt-(get|cache) because they are 
significantly faster at what they do. I also don't know of a replacement 
for 'apt-cache policy [package]'.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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