On Vi, 10 iun 11, 23:55:58, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Asking me about the merits of aptitude is liking asking a emac fanboi > about the merits of vi :-)
I don't think this is a fair comparison, but rather vi vs. vim ;) aptitude can do almost everything apt-get/apt-cache can do, but: + has very powerful search patterns + has an interactive mode (text or GUI), which I find very useful especially for complicated upgrades (not rare with Debian unstable), but also for other tasks - the search is slower - sometimes the first suggested course of action is sub-optimal, more often in interactive mode - aptitude has a few annoying bugs (like loosing 'automatically installed' or 'hold' state in some cases) I like combining them to get the best of both. This was not recommended a few releases ago, but currently the only issue I know of is that they store information on held packages differently. All other databases (available packages, automatically installed, ...) are shared. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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