[maemo-developers] Aptitude for Maemo

[From: Denis Dimick]

LOL,

Nathan, yes you have a valid point, getting stuck in dpg hell is a pain,
I've never been stuck like I used to under RPM's.

Maybe we are back to the argument of adding it as an extra?

Denis

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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Nathan Summers <rockwalrus at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Denis Dimick <dgdimick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm thinking that aptitude is more like having to drive the Porsche onto
> a
> > flatbed truck, drive the truck where you need to go, and unload the
> Porsche.
> > apt-get, apt-cache and dpkg will so things much faster the loadin
> Aptitude
> > and hunting for the app you want to install, de-install.
>
> Aptitude has a command-line mode that is almost identical to apt-get
> and apt-cache, and the interactive mode has a search feature.  But
> yes, dpkg is great until you have a lot of dependencies, and apt-get
> is great until you have conflicts or would prefer a different
> dependency resolution than the one apt-get decides is best.  Going
> down the food chain even farther, tar xvfz is great until you have
> dependencies, and compiling everything from source is great until you
> actually need to do something with your computer.  :)
>
> Rockwalrus
>
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