Re: apt-get vs. aptitude
Oh I have fond memories of aptitude breaking my system. Once it
suggested me to remove most of my system, including apt, I thought it
was going to upgrade it so I confirmed it. I had to reinstall apt from
the debian packages website.
In this new installation I gave it another try but when it started
suggesting very weird plans(like remove all gnome packages) I happily
went back to apt and never looked back.
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Dmitrii Kashin <freehck@freehck.ru> wrote:
> Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It was a cognitive case...
>>
>> You start out by replying that this isn't a bug but normal for
>> aptitude!
>
> Yes, it's normal for aptitude, but isn't it ugliness?
>
>> And I agree.
>>
>> Aptitude gives you the option to to install a piece of software
>> without a hard dependency (and then dealing with the consequences) or
>> of overriding a previous choice of software installation.
>>
>> It gives you a choice! It doesn't install packages that breaks your
>> installation or conflicts with your requirements without your consent!
>
> Great. It gives me a choice to break my system, and the only thing that
> separates me from it is the letter 'y'. Thanks. I do not like this
> choice. I would prefer not to have it.
>
>> Not only is aptitude not broken but it doesn't break apt since you can
>> still use apt-get/aptitude to install other packages.
>
> Did you read carefully. or your aim is to start a new holywar?
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