Re: How did you update to stretch?

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Montag, 26. Juni 2017, 08:26:38 CEST schrieb John Hasler:
> Hans writes:
Interesting! I did not notice apt, just used apt-get, apt-cache and so on. 
Just read the manual of apt. However, aptitude has also its worth, as for me 
it is faster to see, which dependencies are existent for the packages. I like 
ncurses-guis. 

Same is related to synaptic, which is good to fix dependency problems. However, 
as far as I know, synaptic is just a frontend for aptitude and apt. 
 
I do not want to blame any of these tools, as they might all have their goods 
and bads. But it would be nice, if we could agree to ONE tool, which is to be 
used for dist-upgrades. 

And this should be well documented! At the moment IMO there are too many tools 
and that makes it very confusing, doesn't it?

Ok,. now we have about 2 years, to find the best way till the next "stable".

Best

Hans  
> Use apt.  It is intended as an end-user interface and does everything
> apt-get does.  Apt-get is actually intended as a "back-end" tool.