Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7

[Adam Wolfe]

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>     1. Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10? (Dmitrijs Ledkovs)
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> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:31:29 +0100
> From: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com>
> To: Brett Cornwall <brettcornwall at lavabit.com>
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> Subject: Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?
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> On 8 April 2013 17:46, Brett Cornwall <brettcornwall at lavabit.com> wrote:
>> In revisions past, Ubuntu's CDs did not have enough space to accommodate
>> aptitude and apt-get. Now that we have moved on to DVDs I feel it would be a
>> worthy investment to include aptitude by default, especially since it is
>> Debian's 'proper' package management tool.
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> We did not move to DVDs, but to a 800MB limit. Aptitude is a fairly
> niche and highly technical package. People who know/want to use
> aptitude  are also sufficiently advanced to install it manually.
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> Regards,
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> Dmitrijs.
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