Aptitude--any users!

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 18:19, Chris Jones <christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:
> Still, it is 1 out of the 700MB or so they have on the CD.... They have to make harsh cuts to fit into the CD install image, and when two things provide more or less the same basic functionality, it makes sense to only have one of them.
>

Exactly. Aptitude and apt-get do _not_ provide more or less the same
basic functionality. Aptitude is much better is every respect (error
handling, dependency resolution, logging, downgrading). That is
exactly my argument.


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