Re: apt vs aptitude (was ... Re: non-stable packages infestation)

[Francisco M Neto <fmneto@gmail.com>]

I actually miss the good'ol days of dselect. Apart from that I've been 
using a combination of apt for small tasks and synaptic for large 
numbers of packages.

On 04/27/2015 08:21 AM, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:40:37 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 27 April 2015 11:35:42 Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 03:22:33AM -0300, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 19:16:24 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
> > > > > I'm considering going back to apt, even though most of the advice 
> > > > > I've
> > > > > read on apt vs aptitude leans in favor of the latter. After this
> > > > > experience, I've lost trust in aptitude.
> > > >
> > > > Probably old advice, apt is the most recommended nowadays.
> > >
> > > I don't think that is true at all.
> >
> > Agreed.  There are pros and cons.  I like and use aptitude.
>
> Yeah, I thought I read somewhere that aptitude is not recommended 
> anymore, but looking back, what really happened is that I had many 
> negative experiences with aptitude (it would always try to uninstall 
> packages installed by apt), so the right sentence would be "apt is the 
> most recommended nowadays by me"®