Package: debian-handbook Version: 8.20151209~deb8u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
This is my first bug I have ever reported, so any pointers would be awesome! I have been reading this book, and I came across section 6.2 which reads: "APT is a vast project, whose original plans included a graphical interface. It is based on a library which contains the core application, and apt-get is the first front end — command-line based — which was developed within the project. apt is a second command-line based front end provided by APT which overcomes some design mistakes of apt-get." This got me interested, and I wondered what design mistakes were being talked about. I turned to Stack Exchange to ask my question: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270511/how-is-apt-the-new-and-improved-apt-get I got a really good answer from Faheem Mitha, in which they quoted Michael Vogt: "'design mistakes' is a bit of a strong word - we are just scared of changing anything in apt-get because it's used in a gazillion scripts by now. 'apt' lets us do that plus it's easier to type and we can combine apt-get/apt-cache. so I think the answers are all fine, the key part is really that apt is more convenient to use/type. [snip] the gist is that apt/apt-get/apt-cache all share the same library and code, just some tweaks to the default." (Turns out that Faheem posted my question on the IRC Channel.) I think that this section should probably be updated to reflect this better. Thanks for your time and consideration, and for the awesome book! Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
