Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

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Subject: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?
From: Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 03:57:30 -0700
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I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock installation.  I have to do “apt get install aptitude” manually after installation.

Does anybody know why this is?

Thanks!
Rick

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