[Voyage-linux] Why apt-get, why not aptitude?

Andrew Malcolmson (spam-protected)
Wed Mar 10 04:20:46 HKT 2010


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 14:19:58 +0100, "Pavel Vávra" <plamen at square.cz>
said:
> Hi all,
>   sorry, I am novice trying Voyage distro, but I choose it because I use
>   Debian for years. It of course brings some questions and the first one
>   is here. Why apt-get is used in Voyage instead suggested aptitude? Is
>   it only by historic reasons or is something deeper what I cannot see
>   from my position of new user?

I'm guessing just to save disk space, though Punky may have had other
reasons.

I always use aptitude on my desktop Debian, but I don't miss it on
Voyage since I install fewer packages and upgrade or change them less
often.
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Andrew Malcolmson





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