Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?
On 2017-03-21 13:02:02 +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> >I meant a replacement with a text UI.
>
> I never had any situation where this would have helped me instead of
> being clumsy and painful within 12 years of systems administration.
>
> What's your use case?
1. When I want to exclude some buggy packages. I often do this with
aptitude, where major bugs can be reported by apt-listbugs.
2. When I want to upgrade some packages only (choosing packages from
a list by a few keystrokes is the easiest way).
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