-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: > [snip] > >> Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME >> terminal window. > > you're just chicken :-]
Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. > (i'm still in the same original openbox session I started in a couple > days ago (my one concession was to not do this from my usual busy > (50-100 application windows spread across 4 desktops) KDE session)) > > i did take the extra step of doing my upgrade from within a screen > session (inside konsole, not gnome-terminal) > >> >> Lastly, I'd *never* use aptitude. > > It appears (to me at least) that that's an irrational bias you have > there. Irrational? I was last irrational in... in... well, it's been a *long* time since I've been irrational. aptitude (and wajig) likes to be more than slightly aggressive in what else it wants to remove when you remove a "top level" (not meta-) package. Recent versions of apt-get strike a nice balance by listing the packages that become orphanable by a "remove", and helpfully suggests running "apt-get autoremove". And just "install" the ones you want to keep, so that apt-get stops pestering/reminding you to autoremove them. > I'm going with the debian/GNU party line which says aptitude is > superior to apt-get in some way (though I still don't think there's a > drop-in replacement for "apt-get source" functionality to make aptitude > do the right thing, so I would still use apt-get there, but now that i > know "aptitude install -f" is the equivalent of "apt-get -f install", I > really use apt-get for nothing except downloading source packages, > aptitude happily works just fine (until this event, and I think it was > really the number of upgradeable packages I was trying to do at once, > and the unfortunate circumstance of not reading the apt-listbugs output > closely enough to catch that this libxml2 problem was gonna bite me)) -- > i'm confident it'll get solved though (and if not, a reinstall isn't a > huge burden for me). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile." Santa-bot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHeZi0S9HxQb37XmcRAhE/AKC8kD6DeNn8RTSzbKCa/9XxxV/EDACgnOBz nRCZCa3rFyECeZw62mBfy80= =Y3t3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]