On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:19 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:51:19 +0100, Tony Arnold > <tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > > > On 07/06/10 11:22, Neil Perry wrote: > > > That is what I don't understand either, typically I thought if > > > debian would be adopting that apt-get will be getting phased out. > > > Unless Ubuntu devlopers maintain apt-get. > > > > Maybe it's a size thing and squeezing what they can on to the CD. > > aptitude is 2.1MB on my system compared to 115KB for apt-get. I never > > use it but aptitude will run as a curses application allowing > > you to select and deselect packages. Which may explain it's size. I > > tend to use it as a direct alternative to apt-get. Regards, Tony. > > A curses application? Damn, that sounds useful. Maybe I can find the > space ;-) Rowan > > This is down to the fact that currently we have 5 packaging services. I believe that it will still be installed on server as it has no gui counterpart. but between dpkg, apt-get, synaptic and software center I think we have enough for the desktop.
That being said I tend to use aptitude over apt-get just cause it fits in my head easier even though I don't use cli that much now on desktop. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
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