On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > Cardenas wrote: > > it makes perfect sense to have a --recommends flag. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>aptitude --help |grep -A1 recommends > --with(out)-recommends, --with(out)-suggests > Specify whether or not to treat recommends (suggests) as > strong dependencies > > I doubt that apt-get will ever get this, but apt-get is just one example > frontend to apt, and aptitiude can already almost completly replace it. > > There is earlier discussion in this bug report about the difficulty of > presenting recommends/suggests info to the user in a simple interface like > apt's. aptitude avoids this by letting the user jump into a full gui > interface from the simple interface. > > What I'd like to see if for aptitude to get the few remaining command line > switches that apt-get has and it does not, and then for apt-get to just turn > into a symlink to aptitude.. > > (Of course what I would really like to see is an apt built with the new > c++ libs in unstable so aptitude could stop having a dozen grave bugs.)
apt 0.5.5 was uploaded last saturday, but is stuck in NEW.
