aptitude has a more powerful dependency resolver, if for any reason apt- get can't figure out what to do, then it will fallback to aptitude. This will happen if the revert list sent to apt-get is not 100% correct and complete.
I am not sure if the fallback ever happens now, it certainly shouldnt on simple ppa's but on complex ones that ship lots of core libs (like gnome3-staging) it may. A good test case would be to try pp-purge gnome3-staging on 15.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706774 Title: apt-get not used as package manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ppa-purge/+bug/706774/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
