On 2018-04-06, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Certainly I have no proof except my experience > > Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you've shared any.
I've found something ambivalently concrete. Note Since apt / apt-get and aptitude share auto-installed package status (see Section 2.5.5, “The package state for APT”) after lenny, you can mix these tools without major troubles (see Bug #594490). https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations Not *that* reassuring. Who wants *minor* troubles, anyway? I look at them binarily; you can't be a little bit pregnant. >> and my (patchy) memory >> that I have seen discussion of this point on this list before. >> >> Anyway the actual issue in this case turned out to be nothing to do with >> mixing and matching front-ends to dpkg. Glad the OP got his problem >> figured out. > > Cheers, > David. > > -- The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow. --Samuel Beckett
