Bug#66725: marked as done (apt: apt-get --help is incomplete)
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
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apt-get --help should report all the various options that apt supports,
tersely is fine, but nothing should be missing.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux becket 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 22 21:04:54 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library
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> apt-get --help should report all the various options that apt supports,
> tersely is fine, but nothing should be missing.
In total there are something like over 50 different options (if you only
count the raw options and not their permutations) that can be accepted by
the apt-get program, I have decided to document only the short options and
refer the user to the man pages for the more obscure options.
Jason
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