Ubuntu Recommended Package Manager (was Re: gnome-keyring: upgrade/downgrade/upgrade/...)

[Mauro]

On 14 November 2013 17:59, Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers at videotron.ca>wrote:

>  On 13-11-14 02:41 AM, Mauro wrote:
>
>  On 14 November 2013 01:00, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>
>> Kenneth Jacker wrote:
>>
>>>    mg> Aptitude is not the recommended package manager for Ubuntu.
>>>
>>
>
>  No?
>  Why aptitude is not recommended?
>
>
> It's not recommended because its dependency resolution isn't quite
> identical to the one used by apt-get, and isn't the one that is generally
> tested. Also, certain features are added to aptitude after they have been
> added to apt-get, which may result in problems. Multiarch support is one
> example that comes to mind, and had caused pain for some users.
>
> That being said, a lot of people like Aptitude. Just remember that using
> it may result in a slight chance of getting stuck with a package dependency
> or installation issue.
>

So recommended is apt-get for cli or synaptic for gui?
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