Re: Downside to Aptitude?

From: Paul Morgan (paulswm_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 11/29/03

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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 13:08:42 -0500

    On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:12:28 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

    >
    > So I installed aptitude.
    > It appears that
    >
    > apt-get dist-upgrade
    >
    > and
    >
    > aptitude dist-upgrade
    >
    > do exactly the same thing. Even look exactly alike...
    >

    No, they don't do exactly the same thing, or at least they didn't in
    sarge in August, and I have posted empirical evidence. Aptitude
    handle[sd] dependencies better. 

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