I'd agree that the dependency resolver is superior. But why do most
folk use apt-get? apt-get is a pain to go through the manual on but
there are so many switches etc that with knowledge i reckon carefully
studied it is a better bet. Finding orphaned packages one can use
deborphan or gtk-orphan (graphical).

Six months ago i was going to write a manual for aptitude... decided
it wasn't worth it as so many stick with apt-get.

james

2008/10/31 Yavor Doganov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Benedikt Ahrens wrote:
>>
>> it is recommended to stick to one of the alternatives.
>
> It is recommended to use aptitude, since it is the best implemented
> APT frontend and its dependency resolver is superior.
>
> (I use only `apt-get build-dep' and `apt-cache show(src)'; the latter
> only because it is substantially faster compared to the aptitude
> equivalent.)
>
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