Daniel Burrows's notes on Aptitude 0.4.10
Posted: 2008-01-30 01:00
Aptitude in Lenny & Sid has a few new features, some cosmetic but some more important. For example, a cosmetic feature that I like is that if you update Aptitude at the command line, Aptitude now prints out as a final line a little statement telling you how many upgrades/new packages are available. A more serious change is that "aptitude safe-upgrade" (ie, aptitude's version of "apt-get upgrade" - more or less) now will install new packages as dependencies. (You can change this behavior with "--no-new-installs" as an option at the command line.)
Anyhow, I haven't heard much about this here, and I just wondered what people thought of the changes. You can read more details at Daniel Burrows's on blog: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blo ... -released/
Anyhow, I haven't heard much about this here, and I just wondered what people thought of the changes. You can read more details at Daniel Burrows's on blog: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blo ... -released/