On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Brett Cornwall <brettcornw...@lavabit.com> wrote: > On 04/09/2013 12:17 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote: >> >> Why? > > > Because aptitude is the successor to apt-get, endorsed by the community that > does all the packaging for this OS, is more stable, and has better > dependency handling (indeed, promotes better dependency setting). It makes > no sense to keep a less feature-rich and complete tool that has long been > replaced. Space on the CD was the original reason (along with some canonical > employee saying it was 'too complex' for some reason)
I understood in my early ubuntu days that one should use either aptitude or apt/synaptic for package management as each build up there own database of installed apps/dependencies. So what are the cons of using aptitude with synaptic? I used aptitude initially before apt had the autoremove option as apt's --purge option didn't seem to work fully. Aptitude also had an amazing doc which once read is an eye opener. Apt's doc was poor and hasn't been updated since 2005 - if this was revised it would be a good step forward. james -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
