Aptitude--any users!

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 19:41, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2011 10:35, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's not deprecated in Ubuntu. Our documentation refers to apt-get,
> not aptitude. We ship apt-get on the desktop seed, not aptitude,
> although we do ship aptitude on the server seed.

Apologies, I was given the impression that it was deprecate. I
withdraw my arguments. Except for the correctness one.:)

>
>> Personally, as someone that works as a sysadmin and sees it daily, I
>> am pretty sure that despite the deprecation for some reason (even on
>> Ubuntu) every time you try to run something that isn't installed, the
>> message is "Please apt-get install foo" instead of the more correct
>> "aptitude install foo".
>>
>
> It's not 'more correct' given we ship apt-get as the default command
> line package tool.
>
>> Note: I'm aware that the idea of "correctness" in this regard is like
>> saying that toilet paper has directionality, but I stand by my claim
>> given the "deprecation".
>>
>
> It may well be deprecated elsewhere (like in your head ;) but not in
> Ubuntu, not yet anyway.
>
> Al.
>
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