On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday 19 October 2012 16:05:46 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> 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. > > "I swear I _saw_ it" - past tense! Perhaps it was there but is not there now. > > Aptitude did have some definite advantages over apt- , but they are now much > more level pegging. (And no, I do not want a flame war over "my apt is > better than your apt" .... !) I still use aptitude most of the time, because > I know it better.
> >> 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. > > I agree! I guess it would make less difference on stable, not much needs to be done there. But I use unstable+experimental, and use some outside repos like debian-multimedia and wine repos, and at times I have run a mixed Debian/Ubuntu system (I wanted newer GTK et al that was not in unstable or even experimental (during a freeze)). Trust me, that was hairy enough sorting out dependencies *with* aptitude interactive mode, you don't want to try with apt-get! 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=__acrxkmmwr4hovzvl-lzs2eqpbqshviyvkp_nmvo...@mail.gmail.com
