Re: [BLUG] Apt-get vs Aptitude

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:43:42AM -0400, Mark Warner wrote:
> It appears that with Lenny, Synaptic is being deprecated in favor of
> Aptitude. However, my distro of choice (the Lenny based MEPIS 8) still
> defaults to Synaptic. I also understand that mixing the two can
> conceivably cause problems. So for now I'm gonna stick with ol'
> reliable. Old dog != new tricks

If Synaptic is being depricated, expect some other GUI-based tool to be
in the pipeline. The GUI tools seem to have a shorter life-span than the
ncurses tools.

I wouldn't expect the niche (GNOME-based Package Management) to remain
unfilled. It may be a matter of abandonment by the developer. In such
cases, depending on the source of the original, folks sometimes find it
easier to write a new tool than to try to maintain the old one.

(Though in GNOME it seems fairly common for a product to remain at 0.9
until they do a complete rewrite and have a *different* product that
gets no further than version 0.9... I saw someone ranting about it the
other day, but I forget the apps in question. New apps are always sexier
than maintaining old apps.)

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