[Aptitude-devel] Bug#245359: aptitude: add missing apt-get options

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1


2004-04-22 01:48 Dan Jacobson:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.2.14-3
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Add all the options that apt-get has that aptitude lacks, e.g. -o,
>--print-uris, etc.
>
>Hmm, while you are at it, add apt-cache stuff too. I see you already have "show".

Many options are implemented by now, many other diverge and have been
doing so over the years.  That ship sailed long ago.

In my opinion (and with the benefit of the hindsight and looking back to
how things evolved), it was a bit of a mistake to have aptitude
implementing the command line mode and competing with apt, while not
keeping fully compatible or becoming the primary tool in Debian.  It
created another small rift in the ecosystem, that now is impossible to
undo.

I see no point in replicating everything, e.g. "source", when apt is
doing the job fine and there's no disadvantage in doing it via apt than
via aptitude (it's even less typing!).


aptitude implements most of the command line options of apt anyway,
sometimes in a different way, but the situation is vastly different than
12 years ago and it doesn't make sense to keep this open indefinitely.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>