Aptitude--any users!

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 16:41, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 22:45, James Freer <jessejazza at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> That said, I always use aptitude, not apt-get. Upgrades and dependency
>>> hell are handled much better.

this is true - and the logging is the much better. In fact, if I'm not
mistaken, apt-get is deprecated for aptitude.

Personally, as someone that works as a sysadmin and sees it daily, I
am pretty sure that despite the deprecation for some reason (even on
Ubuntu) every time you try to run something that isn't installed, the
message is "Please apt-get install foo" instead of the more correct
"aptitude install foo".

Note: I'm aware that the idea of "correctness" in this regard is like
saying that toilet paper has directionality, but I stand by my claim
given the "deprecation".

cheers
L.

>>
>>> Dotan Cohen
>>
>> Thanks for your reply i've just been experimenting this evening. True
>> apt-get has purge but when one uses aptitude it gives more info as
>> well as you say handles upgrades and dependency better.
>>
>> But why is aptitude not more popular? - is it just because people
>> don't bother to read into it. It does seem to be used more on the
>> kubuntu forum i noticed but everywhere else i find folk use apt-get. I
>> find its just got everything there.
>>
>
> Why is bash more popular than zsh, or Windows more popular than
> Ubuntu? VHS more popular than Beta, or Beiber more popular than
> Pantera?
>
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