Bug#66725: acknowledged by developer (apt: apt-get --help is incomplete)
> > 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.
I'd still rather see them all listed; people can use `more' if the
want to scroll through slowly. ;)
Certainly counting permutations is not useful; the point is to list
all the options, not every possible usage pattern of the program.
But standard GNU coding practice is to list them all, which is why
apt-get confused me. If you don't want to list them all, it would be
very very nice if instead you added a comment to the output saying
that the list is incomplete and where to look for the complete list.
Reply to: