On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:50:37AM +0100, Dal wrote:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:14:18AM -0600, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> was heard to say:
>>   
>>> On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>>>     
>>>>  I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,
>>>> whereas aptitude is an interactive tool that can be driven from the
>>>> command-line.
>>>>       
>>> I would disagree.  Aptitude supports command-line operation as well as 
>>> interactive.
>>>     
>>
>>   What I meant by that is that the project's goals and focus ...


> Aptitude user interface is really great. When I started with debian there 
> was just dselect and I don't think that was user friendly.
> Just aptitude and synaptic too make debian easier for normal users. Anyway 
> it's pity that aptitude doesn't (maybe I just can't find it) source 
> download. Something like apt-get source package.
>
> Anyway it has really better problems-with-packages solving :)
>

yeah, Daniel, great work!

just want to ask the same question as above as regards build-dep? Will
that become a part of aptitude in the future or will it remain in
apt-get with the two packages maintained in parallel? 

thanks for your work on debian!

A

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