[Gllug] aptitude and source packages

[John Edwards]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:54:16PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Wed, April 14, 2010 16:20, Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> Unfortunately, they aren't out of date.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.
> 
> I got in to the habit of typing "aptitude install..." instead of "apt-get
> install" when aptitude has better dependency tracking.
> 
> I realise that apt-get caught up and so I could go back to using it.
> 
> What makes you describe the use of aptitude as idiotic?
> 
> (I'm not attempting to start a flamewar here, I'm genuinely curious).

This came up during spring last year:
	http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2009-March/076781.html
	http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2009-March/076786.html
	http://lists.gllug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/2009-March/076826.html


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