Hello Karsten! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > aptitude is pretty much a replacement for both dselect (interactive) and > apt-get (command line). With near but not-quite drop-in replacement of > the latter. The strengths go beyond this to include logging of system > updates, allegedly, though I'm still not fully clear on how/where.
Do you mean the log in /var/log/aptitude ? Has already helped me in explaining quite a lot of strange things... > [...] > The short answer, though, is that you'd want aptitude over dselect in > virtually all instances. Though apt-get is still useful. Look also at > synaptic and, um, the other stuff. > > > Flo - who was a dselect advocate for a long time and then switched to > > aptitude because of its ability to easily handle mutliple releases. > > I stayed there, and I don't regret it. I really mean that :) Nowadays I solely use aptitude and apt-get source / build-dep (and occasionally a direct dpkg). The only thing I miss is dselect's feature to show me a dependency resolution screen directly after (de)selecting a package, but aptitude's other features more than compensate for this. Now if someone please ported aptitude to hurd so I can get rid of dselect there as well... ;) Still, I think it up to everyone to pick his tool, and if someone after some testing really prefers dselect, well, I won't stop him. Cheers, Flo
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