On Lu, 02 apr 12, 17:32:44, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 02 April 2012 10:48:24 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I'd suggest this instead: > > > > Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages by default and > > is, for its robustness, the preferred program for package management > > from console, to perform system installation, and major system > > upgrades to releases as of Squeeze. > > > > What do you think? > > That isn't how I had understood things - though I feel that you are more > likely to be right on this than I am. As I had understood it, we have gone > from aptitude being recommended for everything, to apt-get being recommended > for major upgrades and the two of them being equal for day to day use at the > command line. As I understand it the latest recommendation is to use apt-get from command line and aptitude interactively. As it happens I'm doing just that: - on stable machines I usually just install or purge one or the other package and apply security updates. apt-get is a bit faster for such simple operations - on the sid install on my laptop I always have aptitude running because I upgrade very often, but also lookup (new) packages, etc. and aptitude's interactive mode is *very* useful when dealing with sid Hope this explains, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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