Replace apt-get with aptitude
Most community as well as official documentation has apt-get as the command you use from CLI to do package management. Debian has officially moved to aptitude since 3.1, because of e.g. its smarter dependency handling on installation and capability to remove automatically installed dependencies upon removal of manually installed package (ie. it's like apt-get autoremove, but automatical)
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varnav:
Some comparison here:
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I posted the following suggestion on a like-minded feature spec (https:/
I second this and I was just coming here to suggest this. However DON'T just "eliminate" apt-get, but rather I suggest that, since the Forums etc. use it so often, when a user types ___ apt-get ___ into a terminal that they should get a message "replace 'apt-get' with 'aptitude' in your command". This way it'll educate people AND not break all the help available. -infinitelink
