I've just tried aptitude and i see that they've fixed that glitch - i needed 70mb removed. That seems to indicate that deborphan isn't so good after all... so perhaps i've learnt this evening i should stay with aptitude!
james 2008/10/31 James Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gNewSense-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users >> > _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
