Re: apt-* and aptitude
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015 20:03:03 +0300
Pavel Volkov <sailor@lists.xtsubasa.org> wrote:
> What's the current officially recommended way to operate packages:
> apt- utilities or aptitude?
> I heard aptitude development was stalled and it offered no real
> advantages (not counting interactive mode).
>
Aptitude has more intelligent dependency processing, and is less likely
to want to remove packages unnecessarily, but because of that, it is
very slow when large numbers of packages need upgrading.
My preference is to use aptitude for day-to-day upgrading, and apt-get
for large-scale jobs e.g. a sid installation which hasn't been upgraded
for a month.
I also use Synaptic when there's a long-term problem with sid
dependencies, and I want to upgrade individual packages, and I
occasionally resort to dpkg when something needs dynamiting...
--
Joe
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