Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
<dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> I beg to differ:
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html
>>
>> Official Debian docs, section 8.1.3 - aptitude:
>>
>> "Note that aptitude is the preferred program for daily package management
>> from console".
>>
>
> Sure, that's why aptitude is seeded on ubuntu-server images, is in
> main and supported.

This is actually being debated over on debian-devel as we type. So
some piece of text from the Debian FAQ that simply hasn't been updated
in a long time doesn't trump anything.

The thread starts here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/04/msg00322.html

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