Aptitude--any users!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 17:36, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

For six MiB uncompressed, probably about a single MiB on the disc?

✈ganymede:~$ aptitude show aptitude
Uncompressed Size: 6,771k

If removing apt-get wouldn't make up for that space, I could name a
dozen other less-necessary packages that would.

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