> Synaptic is using aptitude as back-end (this is serious). No. It uses apt.
> I also find deb system being the best. Managed with aptitude, not apt. > Windows is definitely worth the effort. aptitude as well as synaptic both depend transitive upon debconf, which depends on apt. Use apt-cache dotty synaptic to explore the dependency-graph. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list