The reason aptitude is also used is because apt-get can not handle a package existing in the PPA that does not exist in the archive (sudo apt-get install libglapi-mesa/natty for example, libglapi-mesa only existing in ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa at the moment) so it falls back to using aptitude that will work right in that situation. ppa-purge would have to grow some extra logic for removing packages that don't exist from the list to work with only apt-get.
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