aptitude command line - why?

[Will McCutchen]

> 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.

I don't want to put words into the developers' mouths, but I think it
was chosen because they prefer to provide GUI software where they can
(I would swear I remember reading this somewhere on the Ubuntu site,
but now I can't find it).  Synaptic is the best GTK GUI for apt
available, so it's included.

But maybe I'm way off the mark.


-Will