On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:49:59 +0000 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 10:01:36 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> >>> Will Debian 9 no longer install Aptitude by default?. >> >> Que Sera, Sera..... . Let's stay in the present (in line with the post >> which started this thread) and look at unstable. Here are two >> verifiable facts: >> >> brian@sid:~$ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority >> Priority: important >> >> Debian policy says: >> >> The base system consists of all those packages with priority >> required or important. >> >> Sid "not including aptitude by default in the stock installation" >> would be somewhat unusual. >> > > When did it begin? I can't recall any stable up to squeeze that > included aptitude at the base level. When I've started from the ground > up, aptitude, sudo and mc are the first things I've always added to a > minimal netinstall.
In my experience (I’m the OP) aptitude was always part of the default installation, even when I specified a text-only (no DE) system. It’s very recent (last month or so) that I now have to “apt-get install aptitude”. I wonder what you and I are doing differently? Rick
