On Debian and Fedora experiences

[Panu Matilainen]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Matej Cepl wrote:
> 	Not only that I am really missing aptitude (for those who don't know --
> ncurses based frontend for apt-get, which allows browsing, searching,
> installation, upgrades, anything you want to do with your packages, plus
> it is able to remeber which packages were installed just to satisfy
> dependencies, so when they are not needed they are automatically removed
> as well). I know about apt-rpm, but aptitude still doesn't work with it --
> mornfall (aka Peter Rockai aka prockai<at>redhat<dot>com) is working but
> so far without much success AFAIK.

FWIW older versions of aptitude do work with apt-rpm, eg
eg http://www.haxxed.com/rpms/aptitude-0.3.3-1.src.rpm

AltLinux has a newer aptitude with their apt-rpm but it requires a 
one-liner patch that's not yet in upstream apt-rpm: 
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/i586/SRPMS.classic/aptitude-0.4.1-alt1.1.src.rpm

 	- Panu -