On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 03:08:54PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (05/12/06 14:43), Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I cannot predict what the future will bring. I can say, however, after > > using aptitude on two Sid systems for almost a year and doing > > "dist-upgrade" nearly every single day, that aptitude seems to be a lot > > less dangerous than what has been claimed by some people. (This is not > > directed at you, Mike, I am just getting a bit fed up with the > > aptitude-related fear mongering that I have seen on this list recently.) > > I'll second that; moving from stable to sid some three years ago, > aptitude and apt-listbugs have kept me out of trouble on my main > production workstation and other systems on the same box. Aptitude has > also come a long way over that period with suggested fixes for broken > dependencies etc. > > I've used the graphical front ends such as Synaptic but they don't see > to give the same level of control. > > It just takes a little time to get used to it :)
I had no idea about all those options. All I did was mark a few key packages as manually installed. I am running sid for almost a year without any problems. Just make sure to review the changes before actually doing them. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
