Aptitude--any users!

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Exactly. Aptitude and apt-get do _not_ provide more or less the same
> basic functionality. Aptitude is much better is every respect (error
> handling, dependency resolution, logging, downgrading).

Do you have any proof of this statement?!

They seem to leapfrog each other in terms of capabilities. For example:

For the Debian upgrade from Etch to Lenny, aptitude was the recomended tool.

For the next Debian upgrade, from Lenny to Squeeze, apt-get was the
recomended tool.