On 11 June 2010 23:40, Chris Jones <chrisjo...@comcen.com.au> wrote: > I was discussing this issue with some other members on #ubuntu+1 irc just > yesterday. Should aptitude be included in Maverick by default? > > I can't see any valid reason of why it should be. We already have apt-get, > dpkg and gdebi. And between the 3 of those, all bases are already covered. > So I believe one has to raise the question. > I'm not aware of how much space aptitude actually consumes, but the space > could be better used for something more useful and/or important. > > Regards >
Debian aptitude is at 0.6.2.1-2, while ubuntu's aptitude is at 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu10 I don't know why there is such a large version difference though and how much work needs to be done to merge these two together. Aptitude is able to handle downgrades better than synaptic/apt-get this was the only way for me to downgrade from my personal experimental gcc-4.5 toolchain on Lucid back to the default 4.4 http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aptitude.html https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptitude -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
