Re: Source of Debian wisdom

On 20 Aug 2007, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:20:51AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > I ditched aptitude a couple of years ago in favour of wajig. I'm willing
> > to believe that most or even all of the problems I had with aptitude
> > were my own fault, but wajig is brilliant IMO and I don't find a need
> > for anything else.
> >
>
> But look at all the cruft that drags in. It includes an optional GUI
> that drags in gnome, for example. Also, it is only a front-end to the
> regular apt commands so it doesn't get the extra complex dependancy
> handling of aptitude.
>
> Doug.

I don't use the GUI, just the CLI. I'm not sure what the "extra complex dependency handling" is; perhaps it's this that causes a lot of the problems that people complain of.

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