Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Robert Holtzman's message of 2013-04-09 12:33:05 -0700:
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> > On Ubuntu Desktop we want to discourage usage of command line =) as
> > there is no need for that for non-developers.
> 
> That's one of the more elitist, swinishly arrogant statements I've heard
> lately. Are you actually discouraging new users from learning linux?
> Why? The cli is one of the best teaching tools there is. Are you afraid 
> of confusing Grandma and Grandpa? Is this part of the process of dumbing 
> down the distro that's been going on lately? Did the devs come up with 
> that or was it an edict from Mavelous Mark? 
> 
> I hope to hell that was a joke. 
> 

For computer enthusiasts and power users, the CLI is great. But for the
person who sees their computing device as a window to other activities,
it is a huge distraction.