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Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?



On Sun 01 Nov 2015 at 00:38:25 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 03:57:30AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock installation.  I have to do “apt get install aptitude” manually after installation.
> > 
> > Does anybody know why this is?
> 
> Oh great! They've fixed it. I hated having to "dpkg --purge aptitude"
> after a new installation. If you want extra packages, it's just an
> apt-get install <package> step away.

Nothing is "fixed". If you do not want aptitude it is just a
"dpkg --purge" step away. :)


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