Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

[James Freer]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Brett Cornwall
<brettcornwall at lavabit.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/2013 12:17 PM, Alexandre Strube wrote:
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>> Why?
>
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> Because aptitude is the successor to apt-get, endorsed by the community that
> does all the packaging for this OS, is more stable, and has better
> dependency handling (indeed, promotes better dependency setting). It makes
> no sense to keep a less feature-rich and complete tool that has long been
> replaced. Space on the CD was the original reason (along with some canonical
> employee saying it was 'too complex' for some reason)

I understood in my early ubuntu days that one should use either
aptitude or apt/synaptic for package management as each build up there
own database of installed apps/dependencies. So what are the cons of
using aptitude with synaptic?

I used aptitude initially before apt had the autoremove option as
apt's --purge option didn't seem to work fully. Aptitude also had an
amazing doc which once read is an eye opener. Apt's doc was poor and
hasn't been updated since 2005 - if this was revised it would be a
good step forward.

james