[ale] Your Go-To CLI Tools?

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Thu Nov 6 12:36:12 EST 2014


We'll have to see.  The current document for upgrading squeeze to wheezy
(old-stable to stable) still recommends not using aptitude for the
process.  There isn't a complete guide for wheezy to jessie yet so we'll
have to see if there's any brokenness there when jessie becomes stable.


https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html

On 2014-11-06 09:08, dev null zero two wrote:
> While it may be true that it's broken in some places, debian now recommends
> aptitude over apt-get on their wiki and in other places.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-11-06 07:51, JD wrote:
>>
>>> aptitude - Why to people still bother with apt-get? If you don't know
>> aptitude,
>>> you don't know what you are missing.
>>
>> Because even Debian themselves says aptitude is broken in some respects?
>>  (It doesn't always handle an upgrade properly and can leave the system
>> in an upgrade limbo).
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