Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aptitude
Look at an e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude remove sabayon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get remove sabayon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sabayon is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Look at the two ways of doing things, apt-get correctly tells to the
user that the package (sabayon in this case) is not installed hence not
removed. If one looks at aptitude then as a general user one has no
idea or clear idea if the package has been removed . Similarly look at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude install edubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install edubuntu-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
edubuntu-desktop is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
For general user again its not easy to know if an application failed to
install because its already installed, apt-get gives more info. in this
regard
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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aptitude doesn't give information to user as apt-get does
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131031
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