package managers

[O. Sinclair]

Steven Vollom wrote:
> nepal wrote:
>> Is there any reason not to use synaptic as the package 
>> manager instead of aptitude? ( I ask as aptitude is 
>> obviously the default for Kubuntu).
>>
>> If I do use synaptic, is it best to just use the one or the 
>> other, or doesn't it matter?
>>
>> nepal
>>
>>   
> I usually use Adept Package Manager, however, I have had Adept go on the 
> fritz on occasion (not for about a year now, though), but whenever I was 
> working through the problem with Adept, I used Synaptic.  Synaptic did 
> everything just as well.  I think I stay with Adept, because I started 
> with it and like the way it works.  I really think they are about equal 
> though.
> 
If you are talking 8.04 then I think they are about equal, more a matter 
of taste. In 8.10 I am still trying to understand how Adept is supposed 
to work, very "non-intuitive" to me. So there I find Synaptic easier as 
for now.