Re: package management begins to annoy me



On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote:
I use Debian testing on 2 desktop machines and a notebook, the oldest
of them is 4-5 years old. While in the begining I found apt-get and
dpkg quite usable (but didn't like dselect), now aptitude tends more
and more to annoy me, for several reasons. Maybe, and I hope so, this
is only because i don't know apt-get and aptitude well enough.

[snip]
2. Every 1-2 months or so I do a

aptitude update && aptitude -R safe-upgrade

but more and more often I see aptitude wanting to bloat my
installation of currently roughly 2 GB by another 400 or 500 MB by
installing hundreds of new packages. My suspect is that
increasingly many packages have broken dependencies and want to
pull in quite a lot of other packages which they really shouldn't
depend on.
[snip]

So, am I doing something completely wrong here?


Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship
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