Bug#992025: release-notes: Add section on switching init system
Matthew Vernon wrote:
>> (We don't seem to be consistent about our em dashes.)
>
> Sorry, I'm not sure if you're saying you want an em-dash instead of a hyphen
> here, or if you don't think it matters?
It probably doesn't matter.
>>> + identifying the packages to install later easier). Next, get
>>> + <literal>apt</literal> to download the new packages you need,
>>
>> If you mean the whole package/dependency management system and not the
>> /usr/bin/apt executable then I'd recommend calling it APT. On the
>
> I in fact meant apt-get :)
>
> Should I replace that with apt throughout? I tend to use apt-get for
> everything myself.
These days apt is supposed to be the basic tool for use whenever there
isn't some reason to resort to something more specialised; most of the
Internet sources that mention apt-get do so only because of decades of
documentational inertia. (Speaking of which: I hadn't realised we
still had an APT User guide in https://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals
with a 1998 last-modified date!)
On the other hand in this case we're not exactly writing this section
for an audience of inexperienced users who are keen early adopters of
the latest Debian standard...
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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