Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:34:23AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Ken Irving <fnkci@xxxxxxx> [061202 04:52]:
I've periodically tried using aptitude, but always get scared off
when it seems to "run away". I'm sure it knows what's best for my
machine ;-), but is it possible to override this behavior?
...
I'll probably just go back to using apt-get, and probably everything
will be fine until the next time I decide to try aptitude. Is there a
compelling reason to bother?


Synaptic works. Debian Etch installs synaptic by default. For most
users, it is foolish to mess around with anything else.

Does synaptic do something better than apt-get? It doesn't appear to
be very usable on a command-line, looking at aptitude show synaptic.

From another thread:

From: Ralph Katz <ralph.katz@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: aptitude dist-upgrade removes important packages
On 11/17/2006 01:30 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote:

Meanwhile, Debian installs "synaptic" by default. Use synaptic
instead of aptitude.

Au contraire... The docs are quite explicit about this: use *aptitude*.

Maybe I'll just crawl back under a rock and continue using apt-get.

I thought that aptitude combined the functionality of apt-get and
apt-cache commands, but aptitude source <package> didn't work, and
isn't even mentioned in the man page. Hmm...

Ken

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