aptitude vs. muon

[SteveRiley]

Re: aptitude vs. muon

Correct, they aren't installed on my machine. But that's because I've intentionally instructed apt-get and Muon to ignore recommended packages rather than treat them as dependencies, which they will do by default. So in my case, then, the package managers were not going to install the recommended libparse-debianchangelog-perl. Which, furthermore, means that I would also not get libio-string-perl, a dependency of libparse-debianchangelog-perl. I'm guessing we could continue tracing dependencies and reverse dependencies, but these seem to be a result of treating suggestions and recommendations as actual dependencies. Disabling these defaults has always left me with the feeling that I have a "cleaner" machine.

[NoWorries]

Re: aptitude vs. muon

Looks like the discrepancies are now resolved .

When I had muon package manager running and changed the settings so that "Treat recommended packages as dependencies" was not allowed, I did not restart muon and the packages for Aptitude were unchanged. It was only when I exited muon and restarted it, did I get your list. So it is necessary to restart muon for it to apply any settings that are changed.

[chb]

Re: aptitude vs. muon

I find this a rather interesting exercise as our differences in package selected for the installation of Aptitude has not been fully resolved. I am rather fascinated by the fact that chb has disappeared from this discussion after his post:

I'm still around - the thread just drifted off in another direction and my problem was already solved by using muon and apt-get. I was just pointing out that there were discrepancies between aptitude and muon/apt-get.

[de_koraco]

Re: aptitude vs. muon

I was just pointing out that there were discrepancies between aptitude and muon/apt-get.

Yes, most notably of all, aptitude sucks. It's designed for use on Debian stable. It works to an extent on ubuntu stable releases, but every so often it seems to want to rip your system apart. I only use it with aptitude show, if I do need an ncurses interface for some reason, even dselect makes more sense than aptitude-curses.

[NoWorries]

Re: aptitude vs. muon

I find this a rather interesting exercise as our differences in package selected for the installation of Aptitude has not been fully resolved. I am rather fascinated by the fact that chb has disappeared from this discussion after his post:

I'm still around - the thread just drifted off in another direction and my problem was already solved by using muon and apt-get. I was just pointing out that there were discrepancies between aptitude and muon/apt-get.

Glad to hear from you and that you have solved your problem by using muon and apt-get. Sorry for causing your problem to drift off in another direction.