Aptitude--any users!

[S.Allen]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:48:10PM +0100, James Freer wrote:

> After posting on here i read a long thread on aptitude on a forum
> [which i can't now find!]. I did some experimentation and the only
> conclusions i can draw are the following
> 
> a] aptitude is great and more advanced in some respects but DOES NEED
> to be used as the only package manager for installation and removal.
> For the last couple of years i've used apt-get (set up in aliases to
> make life easy), installed through the software centre, synaptic or
> apt-get - but always used apt-get autoremove for removal and have to
> say that i didn't have any orphan packages... checked with gtkorphan.
> 
> b] it would appear that apt-get development is being pursued more
> actively as it is the quoted one in more cases. This is most likely
> the reason for it being shipped on CDs.
> 
> c] i've read a number of threads saying that aptitude is TOO clever by
> half. With a lot of updating and perhaps one update or install on
> apt-get or synaptic and a remove in aptitude can lead to undesirable
> results.
> 
> I liked aptitude as 'all is in one place' but its sophistication can
> lead to problems which is why i think less folk use it (as well as b])
> and hence it being dropped in debian. My humble twopence worth

Most of it's shite too. I've never heard any rumours that Debian is
dropping aptitude. Also one _can_ use apt-get, aptitude & synpatic
interchangeably -- I do this all the time. So most of what you've wrote
in the foregoing is rubbish.