Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?
On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:49:59 +0000
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 10:01:36 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
>>
>>> Will Debian 9 no longer install Aptitude by default?.
>>
>> Que Sera, Sera..... . Let's stay in the present (in line with the post
>> which started this thread) and look at unstable. Here are two
>> verifiable facts:
>>
>> brian@sid:~$ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority
>> Priority: important
>>
>> Debian policy says:
>>
>> The base system consists of all those packages with priority
>> required or important.
>>
>> Sid "not including aptitude by default in the stock installation"
>> would be somewhat unusual.
>>
>
> When did it begin? I can't recall any stable up to squeeze that
> included aptitude at the base level. When I've started from the ground
> up, aptitude, sudo and mc are the first things I've always added to a
> minimal netinstall.
In my experience (I’m the OP) aptitude was always part of the default installation, even when I specified a text-only (no DE) system. It’s very recent (last month or so) that I now have to “apt-get install aptitude”. I wonder what you and I are doing differently?
Rick
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