Apt or Aptitude

["Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur@johnsonfamilymi.us>]

Okay, lately I've been thinking about Aptitude.  Why is it that
dist-upgrade with aptitude shows stuff to be done, while apt does not?
Can anybody explain whats going on?

For instance:

$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  avifile-divx-plugin avifile-mad-plugin avifile-mjpeg-plugin dvr gksu
grip
  libavifile-0.7c102 lyx-common pconf-detect pstoedit snes9x-x
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.


Now aptitude:

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  libgksuui1.0-1 libid3-3.8.3c2 libmagick++6c2 libplot2c2
libprinterconf0c2
  libpstoedit0c2 libsnmpkit2c2
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  dvr libgksuui1.0-0 libid3-3.8.3 libmagick++6 libplot2 libprinterconf0
  libpstoedit0 libqt3c102-mt libsnmpkit2c102 snes9x-common
The following packages have been kept back:
  avifile-divx-plugin avifile-mad-plugin avifile-mjpeg-plugin
  libavifile-0.7c102 lyx-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgksuui1.0-1 libid3-3.8.3c2 libmagick++6c2 libplot2c2
libprinterconf0c2
  libpstoedit0c2 libsnmpkit2c2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dvr libgksuui1.0-0 libid3-3.8.3 libmagick++6 libplot2 libprinterconf0
  libpstoedit0 libqt3c102-mt libsnmpkit2c102 snes9x-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gksu grip pconf-detect pstoedit snes9x-x
5 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 10 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 2723kB of archives. After unpacking 7945kB will be freed.



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