Aptitude--any users!

[Alan Pope]

On 3 May 2011 10:35, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:
> this is true - and the logging is the much better. In fact, if I'm not
> mistaken, apt-get is deprecated for aptitude.

It's not deprecated in Ubuntu. Our documentation refers to apt-get,
not aptitude. We ship apt-get on the desktop seed, not aptitude,
although we do ship aptitude on the server seed.

> Personally, as someone that works as a sysadmin and sees it daily, I
> am pretty sure that despite the deprecation for some reason (even on
> Ubuntu) every time you try to run something that isn't installed, the
> message is "Please apt-get install foo" instead of the more correct
> "aptitude install foo".
>

It's not 'more correct' given we ship apt-get as the default command
line package tool.

> Note: I'm aware that the idea of "correctness" in this regard is like
> saying that toilet paper has directionality, but I stand by my claim
> given the "deprecation".
>

It may well be deprecated elsewhere (like in your head ;) but not in
Ubuntu, not yet anyway.

Al.