On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:05:55AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> I recommend using aptitude for everything. It replaces apt-get and >> apt-cache, ... > > root@tal:~# dpkg -S /usr/bin/apt-get > apt: /usr/bin/apt-get > > root@tal:~# apt-cache policy aptitude > aptitude: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 0.6.8.1-2 > Version table: > 0.6.8.1-2 0 > 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages > > IOW, I can easily remove aptitude, I wouldn't like to try forcefully > removing apt. > >> aptitude search chess > > Mmmm, :) > >> Aptitude is the officially recommended tool for command line package >> management, replacing apt-get. > > Where does it say that? If you are talking about the release notes, then > that seems to vary from release to release and generally refers to which > tool does the best job of upgrading from one release to the next without > too many problems.
I swear I saw it on the Aptitude page on the Debian wiki, but I guess it was somewhere else, because I just looked and it is not. Oh well. I mean obviously people are free to use what they want, I just cannot understand why anyone would use apt-* when there is aptitude. And 90% of the time I use interactive mode, which doesn't exist *at all* in apt-*, and when I do use the CLI, one command for installing searching, etc. is more convent than several. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFoWM=_p9vgeudez02kstmym2ytwgoas9ld44a3btmgjprj...@mail.gmail.com
