I use aptitude ALOT, especially to uninstall things. And from my experince it's MUCH better to solve dependices than apt-get, and at fixing broken packages.
Also Debians, documenation prefers aptitude over apt-get, and I belive they have a good reasor for this. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian- reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations_with_commandline Personally I can't belive such a great tool as aptiude should be deleted just to save a few MBs... -- Removal of aptitude from base installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592336 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs