Control: tags -1 + wontfix Control: close -1
2004-04-22 01:48 Dan Jacobson:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.2.14-3 Severity: wishlist Add all the options that apt-get has that aptitude lacks, e.g. -o, --print-uris, etc. Hmm, while you are at it, add apt-cache stuff too. I see you already have "show".
Many options are implemented by now, many other diverge and have been doing so over the years. That ship sailed long ago. In my opinion (and with the benefit of the hindsight and looking back to how things evolved), it was a bit of a mistake to have aptitude implementing the command line mode and competing with apt, while not keeping fully compatible or becoming the primary tool in Debian. It created another small rift in the ecosystem, that now is impossible to undo. I see no point in replicating everything, e.g. "source", when apt is doing the job fine and there's no disadvantage in doing it via apt than via aptitude (it's even less typing!). aptitude implements most of the command line options of apt anyway, sometimes in a different way, but the situation is vastly different than 12 years ago and it doesn't make sense to keep this open indefinitely. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
