The though that recommended Debian way is to use aptitude. http://wiki.debian.org/SystemPrinting/Discussion http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html
Lucas On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 8:58 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:23:52PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 06/11/08 17:09, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> >severe problems with it. Given that apt-get now supports the most >> >interesting features of aptitude as well, I would go for apt-get. >> >So far, nobody came up with an issue, where apt-get behaved worse >> >than aptitude for the etch-to-lenny upgrade. In both cases we >> >should recommend upgrading the tool itself first anyway. >> I have experienced some upgrade to lenny where apt behaved better than >> aptitude. >> >> Do we agree to replace aptitude by apt-get in the release-notes? If so, I >> will do the necessary for submitting a patch for that. > > One question I haven't seen addressed in this thread (perhaps I haven't > looked hard enough) is what impact the use of apt instead of aptitude > has on systems that are currently using aptitude. Will upgrading with > apt mean that aptitude will no longer know which packages were expressly > requested by the user, and which were installed merely because other > packages needed them? Or has apt-get now progressed to maintain this > information? > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Turbogears2 Manual http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/TurboGears2 Bazaar and Launchpad http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/bzr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
