On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 23:38:55 +0100, Franco Vecchiato wrote: > With apt-get there are 98 packages to install and the video card is not > recognized (vesa driver doesn't work, but this is not important for me). > > Aptitude installs 105 packages instead, and the video card (nv driver) > is correctly recognized. > See commands outputs in each attachment. > > Is this behavior correct? IMHO apt-get should make the same work > aptitude does: > hardware recognition, > correct driver installation, > (installation of the same packets?). > I think this is expected, because aptitude (by defaults) install recommended packages, while apt-get only install dependencies. xserver-xorg recommends a bunch of hardware detection tools, which it would IMHO be wrong to depend on, so the autodetection of your hardware works better if they are installed, as with aptitude. Cheers, Julien
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