Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Dmitrii Kashin <freehck@freehck.ru> wrote: >> Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de> writes: >>> >>> What is the prefered tool for installing on the CLI? apt-get or >>> aptitude? Last time I read about it, it was aptitude, due to better >>> dependency checking. What is the current state? apt-get or aptitude? >>> Does it matter? What about using both? >> >> I should notice that you cannot compare apt-get and aptitude. But you >> can do it for aptitude and APT utilities. >> >> I find aptitude somtimes inadequate, and therefore dangerous in some >> cases. I met situations when aptitude completly broke functioning of >> APT. APT utilities in their turn are simpler, and they are more >> preferred to manage packages. >> >> But although aptitude can break APT, APT could not break aptitude's >> working, so you always can use it in order to use its searching >> abilities. I do so. > > Have you filed a bug report about aptitude breaking apt (whatever that > means!) or is this just FUD? No, I have not. Because it is normal aptitude's behaviour. I have just written about this case in debian-russian list, but can not find now the original text, so I am writing new one. It was a cognitive case. I had set priorities for dbus to negative ones using pinning. Then I tried to install some package which needed dbus with apt-get and aptitude; and then I compared behavior of theese utilities. As it was impossible to resolve dependencies for this package due to pinning, apt-get printed error message and shut down. And in my opinion it was a right decision. But aptitude in its turn did not bahave the same way. What did it do? It suggested to me several "solutions". They were: 1) Install this package ignoring dependency. As it was a hard dependency, program could not work without it. And if you choose this variant, unresolved dependencies appears in the system, so you would not be able to use apt-get to manage packages anymore. And it is the case you asked about. 2) Install dbus, forgot about pinning. This one just shocked me. 3) ... There was a lot of fun "solutions" of the problem. But as I said, I can not find original post, and can not remember more examples. It's enough I think.
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