On Fri 21 Jul 2017 at 00:43:08 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Joe Pfeiffer composed on 2017-07-20 15:38 (UTC-0600): > > > David Wright wrote: > > >> On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 14:57:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > >>> Did you miss that in Stretch apt is preferred to apt-get? > > >> I did. Where does it say that? > > > The closest thing to that statement I've encountered is in the Debian > > Administrator's Handbook, "apt is a second command-line based front end > > provided by APT which overcomes some design mistakes of apt-get." It > > doesn't quite say it's preferred, but it does say why the author of the > > handbook thinks it's superior. > > > https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html > > section 6.2 > > The handbook paragraph following that quoted above includes this: > > "The most recommended interface, apt,..." > > It only says apt is the cmdline interface that followed apt-get, not when it > followed, but I think "overcomes design mistakes of apt-get" is enough to > justify saying that apt is generally preferred to apt-get.
In ยง6,2 I actually _can't_ see where the author says it's superior. I _can_ see that a substitution s/apt-get/apt/ has been made in the newer version of the handbook (actually published just after jessie was released) and in stretch's Installation Guide. For a gloss on the "design mistakes" statement, see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818560 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270511/how-is-apt-the-new-and-improved-apt-get Cheers, David.