2.6 Kernel in Debian?

[Nothinman]

aptitude (or is that synaptic, probably doesn't matter) just seems to be dselect with different colors and key-bindings, you use it the same exact way. I can't imagine why people like it over dselect. And whichever one is the GTK one is even worse, when you select to remove a package it marks all the dependent packages for removale, dselect actually gives you a chance to replace the package with an equivalent without having to reselect all those packages.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
aptitude (or is that synaptic, probably doesn't matter) just seems to be dselect with different colors and key-bindings, you use it the same exact way. I can't imagine why people like it over dselect. And whichever one is the GTK one is even worse, when you select to remove a package it marks all the dependent packages for removale, dselect actually gives you a chance to replace the package with an equivalent without having to reselect all those packages.

Maybe they respect apt.conf.

 

[cleverhandle]

Synaptic behaves the same way, unfortunately. Presumably aptitude does as well. Guess I'll stick with editing sources.list when I need to pull from unstable then. Drat...