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