aptitude command line - why?

[Derrick Hudson]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:18:37AM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
| I have used both apt-get and aptitude, I thought aptitude was simply
| and interface for apt-get.  Is there more to it?

APT is a library, and both aptitude and apt-get are frontends to it.
apt-get was created as a debugging and proof-of-concept interface.
aptitude is meant to be a user-friendly interface.

| Am I correct in thinking aptitude is better at removing dependent
| packages when they are not needed?

It is, but only if the metadata is maintained.  Dependent packages
install by apt-get will be considered "manual" (instead of "auto") by
aptitude.  Thus I recommend using aptitude exclusively, when possible.
(aptitude doesn't have the 'build-dep' or 'source' actions yet)

-D

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