-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/21/07 10:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:39:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 09/21/07 00:43, Miles Bader wrote: >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> The archives are replete with very valid reasons why people don't >>>> trust aptitude. >>> Not really. A lot of vague rumors flying about though. >> Vague rumors to you, first-hand experience to me. > > I know you, and many others, have had trouble with aptitude, but I > feel its important to point out that aptitude does what one tells it > too. Now, one may be unintentionally telling it to do something one > doesn't want, but that is another issue.
"# aptitude upgrade" doesn't mean "remove GNOME, perl and everything they depend on". > Aptitude appears, to me, to > have much more sophisticated behavior than apt-get, Sophisticated, yes. Excessively clever, no. > and that behavior > may appear cryptic if not downright intentionally destructive but that > behavior > *is* predictable, knowable and can be altered to fit the > circumstance. It's, more often than not, I think, a matter of learning > a different tool and understanding what it does. > > Thankfully, we have choice in the matter and can use the > package-manager of choice. :) This is true. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9BDQS9HxQb37XmcRAsnTAKCFbiYHPi7VbPlZBK6tRH2/GDbXMgCeJ9YM prcibg37z1LsnuDtmioakXk= =oPWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
