Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the primary benefit I keep hearing about for aptitude over apt-get. > I just don't see it as particularly valuable. Let's talk use cases:
Lots of people don't want tons of random crappy libraries clogging up their system just because they were needed 3 years ago by some pointless waste of time package they installed by mistake, Maybe you don't care, and have gobs of disk space to burn, but _lots of people do care_, and aptitude does an elegant and painless job of satisfying this desire (unlike deborphan; I used it for a long time before aptitude was usable, and frankly, deborphan is an unreliable and cranky hack). Besides that (excellent) functionality, aptitude is just generally an great interface to debian's package system -- more consistent, functional, and user-friendly than the alternatives, both in full-screen mode and command-line mode. Just about the only real complaint I've ever had about it is that it's slow to start up on old systems. If aptitude has a bug that annoys you, send a bug report. -Miles -- 80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]