making deborphan obsolete?

federico silva ouch.doh at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 22:17:35 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:31, Lutzer wrote: 
Lutzer escribió:
> I agree. But I'm not sure about the purpose of Aptitude. Is it a
> replacement for apt-get/cache or is the goal to provide a terminal based
> frontend to compete with e.g. Synaptic? For the former I would like to
> know why  both - apt-get _and_ aptitude - are shipped with Ubuntu?
> People couldn't advice to use apt-get anymore if apt-get would not be
> included . ;-)

If that was done I think it would alientate a lot of people.
I myself have just started using aptitude, but removing software
that is heavily used by many is just not a good idea IMO.

my 1 UY$.

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