[ubuntu-us-ut] Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude'

MilesTogoe miles.togoe at gmail.com
Sun Sep 12 20:07:16 BST 2010


  On 09/12/2010 01:52 AM, Benjamin Cardon wrote:
> But apt-get DOESN'T work better than aptitude o_O

of course if they got rid of the mono lib crap they could fit aptitude 
and build-essential and vim on the main install but why give the open 
source community good open source tools when you can give them MS / 
Novell crap - a real pet peeve re Ubuntu




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> On Sep 12, 2010, at 2:35 AM, Christian Horne 
> <blendmaster1024 at gmail.com <mailto:blendmaster1024 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> finally rid of it. excuse me if it annoyed me, but since apt-get does 
>> the job better than aptitude which is supposed to wrap it, it annoyed me.
>> blendmaster1024
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>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Mike Basinger 
>> <mike.basinger at gmail.com <mailto:mike.basinger at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>     Should be still installable, just not included by default.
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>>     Mike
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>>     On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Christer Edwards
>>     <christer.edwards at gmail.com <mailto:christer.edwards at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>     > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Benjamin Cardon
>>     <bj.cardon at gmail.com <mailto:bj.cardon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     >> Presumably to save the 13-16mb aptitude used on the CD.
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>>     > Removing reliable system tools for social networking applications..
>>     > I'm not too happy about this one myself.
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