Bug#675360: Symlink apt to apt-get

[Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
>> apt-get is over twice as long as yum, so the speedup would be > 2 :p
>
> The name "apt" was used by Java for quite some time, and I suspect many people
> might have scripts that use "apt" and/or have a Java with "apt" installed.

Ah, that sucks.

> It also does not make sense, as apt-get is not comparable to yum. apt-get
> is a tool for modifying things, you also need apt-cache and friends to
> have complete functionality, so linking apt-get to apt is counter
> productive.

The reference to yum was a joke.
Yes, sometimes apt-cache is needed, but I find apt-get being used much
more frequently.

-- 
Olaf