[ale] debian choice of high-level package manager [was: Re: Ubuntu help]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Jan 26 16:05:40 EST 2009


On 01/26/2009 12:25 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Sure, it's all dpkg in the end, but apt-get and aptitude will suggest
> different solutions to resolve dependency problems. I think Debian is
> recommending the use of aptitude now, but that could have changed.

There's at least some contention within debian about whether to stick
with aptitude or to revert to apt-get:

  http://bugs.debian.org/503296#25

I'm not sure if this has been addressed in a more formal/focussed
discussion within the project, though.

	--dkg

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