On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:24:47 PM Brett Cornwall wrote: > On 04/09/2013 12:17 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote: > > Why? > > Because aptitude is the successor to apt-get, endorsed by the community > that does all the packaging for this OS, is more stable, and has better > dependency handling (indeed, promotes better dependency setting). It > makes no sense to keep a less feature-rich and complete tool that has > long been replaced. Space on the CD was the original reason (along with > some canonical employee saying it was 'too complex' for some reason)
It is in no way a successor to apt. Scott K -- 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
