[Xastir] Ubuntu-cvsbuild script updated for 10.10

[David A Aitcheson]

Tom,

Thank you for the clarification... It seems that that I have been led
astray by some PhD types.  I'll undertake some additional self
enlightenment.

Dave - KB3EFS

On 01/04/2011 05:56 PM, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 14:00, David A Aitcheson
> <david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is good! Â I find apt-get to be more versatile and understandable in
>> the gnome environment... now the KDE environment is a totally different
>> animal and that is where Aptitude is better suited.
> 
> [Off topic]
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by apt-get being more versatile than
> aptitude, or better suited to any particularly desktop environment.
> Both are command line tools. Both install packages with dpkg. They
> both install software exactly the same way.
> 
> The difference is that aptitude keeps track of which packages were
> installed as dependencies. You won't notice this until you go to
> uninstall a package. When you uninstall a package with aptitude, it
> will also uninstall that package's dependencies as long as they are
> not needed for any other packages. This is different than
> apt-get--apt-get will leave orphaned packages that were dependencies
> of old uninstalled packages.
> 
> Here is a write-up explaining the difference:
> http://pthree.org/2007/08/12/aptitude-vs-apt-get/
> 
> Before you first use aptitude, you have to tell it that all of the
> packages you previously installed with apt-get are not orphaned, and
> you indeed want to keep them:
> 
> # aptitude keep-all
> 
> 
> Tom KD7LXL
> 



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