aptitude x apt-get (was: Re: Dapper - more updates skipped)

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Wednesday 20 September 2006 17:15, John Dangler escreveu:
> > I would suggest to use aptitude pemanently instead of apt-get. It can be 
used 
> > both in a text UI, or in CLI (with a syntax very similar to apt-get).

> I'm not a fan of aptitude... the interface is a bit too kludgy for me.
> I'm used to the commandline in Unix/Linux, so apt-get update && apt-get
> upgrade are fine for me.  The problem I reported came from the desktop
> update, though.

As I said, you can do the same things (install, update, upgrade, dist-upgrade, 
purge, download, clean, etc) just substituting apt-get for aptitude. 

Aptitude has several enhancements over apt-get, the most important IMHO being 
an additional flag for packages that are installed automatically as a 
dependency. This way, when one package marked with this "automatic" flag gets 
orphaned by its parent dependencies, it is selected for removal 
automatically.

I too didn't like aptitude's interface, but I just got used to it, once I 
discoverd the above facts. It is fairly good to do several routines at once.

AFAICT apt-get could already be a symlink to aptitude, and I wouldn't 
notice. :)

regards
FF