Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-18 Thread Chris Davies
Martin wrote: > I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude > then with synaptic without worry that something will break? Not if you use a preferences file with pinning. Aptitude honours it. Synaptic ignores it. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-03-15 01:06 +0100, Omar Campagne wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> Martin wrote: >> >I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude >> >then with synaptic without worry that something will break? >> >They both use same database of instal

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-14 Thread Omar Campagne
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:12:35PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > Martin wrote: > >I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude > >then with synaptic without worry that something will break? > >They both use same database of installed packages, right? > >I guess the answer is 'yes' -

Re: are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-13 Thread Aioanei Rares
Martin wrote: I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin yes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

are aptitude and synaptic compatible?

2010-03-13 Thread Martin
I mean can I install/deinstall packages once with aptitude then with synaptic without worry that something will break? They both use same database of installed packages, right? I guess the answer is 'yes' - I just want to be sure. Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Bill Wohler
OK, I have to jump in since there seems to be a lot of misinformation going around. Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is one snag. Aptitude keeps a note of packages that have been > installed manually (as opposed to being installed automatically as > dependencies). The result is that

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread M-L
On Monday 22 May 2006 17:39, Chris Lale wrote this for perusal by us all: >---> Black Dew wrote: >---> >---> > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >---> > >---> >> Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to >---> >> mix apt-get

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-22 Thread Chris Lale
Black Dew wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-21 Thread Black Dew
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both synaptic and aptitude are

Re: mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-21 Thread Black Dew
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions? Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. Both synaptic and aptitude are

mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions?Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. thanksraju

aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-17 Thread Kenneth Jacker
The recent discussion about 'apt-get' and 'aptitude' was interesting and useful (I've used 'aptitude' for years). It appeared that the consensus was not to mix the two. What about 'aptitude' and 'synaptic'? Is it "safe" to use on

aptitude and synaptic

2003-12-15 Thread M. Kirchhoff
Does Synaptic's ability to "remove including any orphaned dependencies" do as good a job as the inate abilities of aptitude? I've recently abandoned apt in favor of aptitude for its ability to track and automatically remove unneeded dependencies. However, I really like Synaptic, but want to be s