Hi, On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 03:13:53AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > >From another thread: > > > From: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages > > On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic > > > instead of aptitude. > > > > Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*. > > Maybe I'll just crawl back under a rock and continue using apt-get. > > I thought that aptitude combined the functionality of apt-get and > apt-cache commands, but aptitude source <package> didn't work, and > isn't even mentioned in the man page. Hmm...
aptitude does most of apt-get cli things now. It has been improving. source build-dep are 2 things it is missing now. Most of its feature can be configured via menu, commandline, or config file. Oh, if you are writing script, use apt-get. It is simple and more predictable under other people"s machine. Otherwise aptitude is good for vt-100 like environment with visual mode on console. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
