On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:58:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut]
> > So uninstalling and purging aptitude's configuration looks viable. As long > as it > doesn't do nasties like uninstalling grub and wicd, which it was threatening > to do > a while ago. > > But I might first create myself an up-to-date bootable USB installation stick > just > in case. > There are thousands of Debian/Devuan installations out there which have never used aptitude. I know that, for some misterious reason that defies my logic, apt-get "is no longer the recommended primary tool" for package management in Debian, and a similar death-sentence has been issued for dselect in the same page: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPackageManagement But again, I personally don't see the reason why this should be the case at all, if we exclude the classic "oh, they are very old cli-only tools, and anything that is old should become obsolete, sooner or later, so better sooner than later because we need to reimplement them in a more complicated and disfunctional way..." The few times I have tried aptitude in the last ten years or so, I have always ended up with zillions of useless packages installed just because they were "recommended" or "suggested". It is exactly this "I-am-a-stupid-but-still-idiotproof-software" a(p|t)titude that I find very disturbing. > Yes, I got myself into an ugly mess. > Not at all. There is nothing that you can't get sorted by using apt-* and/or dpkg, and a bit of time and patience. Unless you have gone all the way down to find yourself typing something like "Yes, my dear apt-get-I-know-everything, I understand very well that by removing this damn package I will most probably destroy my system, but you know what? I want you to proceed anyway, immediately, and I also would appreciate if you could just shut the fuck up and mind your business in the future!" :D My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
