[Gllug] aptitude and source packages

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 01:36:31PM +0100, Sean wrote:
> >  But now that apt-get
> > tracks for itself which packages were deliberately installed and which
> > were automatically installed to resolve dependencies, aptitude offers no
> > benefit at all that I can see as a cli tool for package management.
> 
> Thanks - that's news to me - I shall now assume that suggestions to
> use aptitude instead of apt are out of date (well maybe I'll check the
> date of the page I'm reading ;-)

Unfortunately, they aren't out of date.  They're deeply misguided, but
there are plenty of idiots touting aptitude as your first-line package
management tool today.

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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