Re: Apt-Get or Aptitude




On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Celejar wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:14:18 -0600
Nate Duehr <nate@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Oct 28, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:

[snip]

I'd say the main difference is that apt-get is a command-line tool,
whereas aptitude is an interactive tool that can be driven from the
command-line.


I would disagree. Aptitude supports command-line operation as well as
interactive.

You do realize that Daniel is both the author and maintainer of
aptitude :) ?

Nope.

I guess he forgot that you can drive aptitude just fine from the command line? ;-)

[Thanks, Daniel, for your Debian, aptitude and d-u work!]

Yep. Good job. Aptitude walks the dog, compared to apt-get.

I'm an old dselect guy who "migrated" to aptitude.

It's good stuff.

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