James Freer wrote:
"aptitude is a terminal-based package managemer with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken."
Using ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I was a bit surprised to find in synaptic the above - is this someone poking fun, if so it doesn't seem very professional to me.
I read that Aptitude was the Debian preferred package manager and i use to use it with versions 6.10 ,7.04. In 7.10 i found that it didn't seem to close and was listed in launchpad. Since then i haven't used it and the fault doesn't seem to have been rectified. Has anyone else found this.
james
I have Ubuntu 8.10 and aptitude seems to close OK on that. That said, I find Synaptic adequately efficient and have no need for aptitude, and if I did need a non-GUI environment I may well prefer to use apt-get anyway. As regards humour, that's all part of the Linux experience I think and reflects the community aspect of Linux rather than corporate stuffiness which is often passed off as professionalism.
Mark