"Julien BLACHE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've read that but I didn't take it into account because people google
for
docs and they will find documentation recommending apt-get (they usually
won't
notice if the doc is recent or not). Furthermore, there's also the fact
that on user forums there are people who will still be recommending
apt-get as it's what they are using.
So you might be right on your first assertion, but I don't agree with
your
conclusion "If doc is the only problem, then it's not a problem".
When aptitude came out, we've been told that aptitude was the real apt
frontend that apt-get was never meant to be to begin with (apt-get
being only a debug/devel tool for libapt) and that it was the tool to
use from now on for everybody except maybe for advanced users who will
probably stick with apt-get.
Either this hasn't got enough publicity, or people decided to stick
with apt-get because aptitude didn't cut it.
The former case is easy enough to fix before October 1st; the latter
might not be that easy to fix, depending on the reasons behind the
dislike for aptitude.
Now, from the Debian users I know around me, I can tell you that none
of them like aptitude, and they especially dislike the "install
recommends by default" so-called "feature".
I am a Debian user in so far as I maintain 0 packages for Debian, and am not
a DD.
I use aptitude almost exclusively. I install reccomends by default. I rarely
have any reason to override that default.
Things just work.
I chose to use Aptitude because it worked and the dependency tracking
feature was quite nice. (I'll admit that at the time, if you wanted an
interactive package selector, your choices wre dselect, and aptitude. IIRC
synaptic was not really in great shape at that time, and as you will learn
form the rest of this message, would not have been appropriate even if it
was in good working order.)
Besides I accepted that apt-get was really only ever a minimalistic
front-end for the APT package management system. Aptitude is much fuller
featured.
Some things to note about me though:
I have been using Linux for only ~3 years, and even on day one I was a
poweruser. I did not have any UNIX experience, but I had DOS experience, so
the command line did not scare me. I decided not to fear things breaking as
that is merely an opertunaty to learn how to fix it. So besides a bit a
playing with Knoppix, and tomsrtbt, I installed a virtual machine
containning a command line only Debian sid. That is what I still use. Yes, I
dove right in to sid and never looked back despite having only ~1-2 months
of linux experience (and of that, most was only part-time experience).
I don't worry about breakage as it is not my production machine, and is
command line only, so a good chunk of the breakage misses me completely.
My main OS is still Windows (unfortuantely), so I learned some commands and
whatnot that way. (I do intend to eventually swap, and run a Linux system on
the hardware (with a desktop environment), and Windows in a VM, but have not
yet done so.)
As for why I chose Debian I honestlly don't rember. I belive it was because
of hearing about the nice package management system. (Also, I had previously
tried installing RedHat Linux on the metal of that laptop, and the results
were awful. Problems with the video settings (X configuration issue I
suspect), and an unsupported southbridge.)
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