System updates: apt-get or aptitude

[Kirkx]

LL system update script is using apt-get:

/usr/scripts/updates

Code:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

As I was trying out Debian Jessie lately I noticed that aptitude seems to be considered a better choice to do system updates than apt-get because it offers smarter handling of dependencies and has some other benefits. The equivalent command would be:

Code:

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

I have done a test run of both commands (actual updates were aborted) and the output is quite different:

apt-get:


aptitude:


I'm wondering what experts think about all this.