update-manager vs apt-get

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> [2006.07.24.1542 +0100]:
> > AFAIK sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is the
> > same as running update-manager (without GUI)
> 
> No, it is not.  It uses a quite different (smarter) upgrade
> process.

Could you please point me/us to some details? Or is it simply
s/apt-get/aptitude/ in the above?

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