Aptitude--any users!

[Tom H]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 3 May 2011 10:35, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> this is true - and the logging is the much better. In fact, if I'm not
>> mistaken, apt-get is deprecated for aptitude.
>
> 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.
>
>> 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.

aptitude was dropped from the desktop seed for space reasons - and
because there are many alternatives. It's one of the first apps that I
install, if I use a desktop CD, for it's great search customization
capabilities.