Alex Nordstrom wrote:
Sunday, 19 February 2006 13:29, Rob Blomquist wrote:

Consequently, I am now staying away from that GUI and am running it
from the CL.

I personally find that aptitude's GUI is incomprehensible,

Did it acquire a GUI?  My Sarge version only seems to have a curses interface.

 but that it
is far superior to apt-get on the command-line,

They are (or at least should be) complementary, not competing tools.

 partly because it does
remove unused cruft (but also because the resolver is better).

That's an apt back-end issue that is common to all package managers, so it (ideally) should drive the selection of a package manager.


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