aptitude command line - why?

[Pizbit]

Oops, my bad, I has assumed that was going to the list, usually
hitting reply does send it there, argh! Sorry about that.


<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:44:59PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > So I guess the next question is Synaptic more like aptitude or apt-get?
> >
> > Synaptic is different from both; if I had to classify it, it's closer to
> > aptitude in features.
>
> any specific reasons why synaptic was chosen as the default package
> manager for Ubuntu instead of aptitude (thus its including in the
> default system menus)?   I'm just curious. Personally I like synaptic,
> it just work in an user-friendly way in my opinion, but a lot of
> people seems to use aptitude instead.
>
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My guess is that it's a nice GUI interface whereas aptitude requires a
terminal and is less 'userfriendly'. Having a nice GUI helps people
find what they want to find, menus are nifty and save time in helping
someone use the program to do something insead of saying "press this
key, that key and then the this one" one can say "click that then
that". Most find it easier to remember things with visual clues than
remembering keys.