Steve Langasek wrote: > This manual represents the opinion of a single developer.
And what does that have to do with the price of bananas in Iceland? The fact that aptitude is currently the recommended tool for package management has various reasons: user interface, features, dependency handling, etc. That status has evolved over the last 3 or so release cycles. You have even been part of some of the discussions (for example sarge -> etch upgrade issues) aptitude is the primary tool used by Debian Installer (and because of that its current priority of "important" is actally necessary). It is also recommended in both the Release Notes (for stable release upgrades) and the Installation Guide. So what's listed in the "Debian Reference" is a correct reflection of aptitude's current status and not, as you imply, the result of some single developer being on crack. The growing dependency chain of aptitude *is* of some concern and may be reason to re-evaluate its role, but in no way does that change its _current_ status. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
