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Author: Noel Torres
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] apt-get vs. aptitude ?
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> escribió:

>     You guys all talk of aptitude as a CLI. But it is essentially a  
> CUI (Curses User Interface) supposed to give you diverse views of  
> the status of your packages and of what you are doing. I could never  
> make any sense of this CUI, although I know people who do. I've  
> completely given up on this and use only apt-get and synaptic.  
> Synaptic is a GUI, very straightforward to use. I think aptitude  
> could be as easy  but it has been developped by geeks for their own  
> use without care for the general admin and without a sensible  
> documentation.


I regularly use aptitude's CUI (I use to name it as text-mode GUI).
Mostly because it has that wonderful "Mark as automatically installed"
mode, that allows packages to be more easily updated or removed.

Regards

Noel
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