Bug#249021:

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 - wontfix

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 01:22:11PM -0400, Boris Verkhovskiy wrote:
> Please reconsider marking this as "wontfix".
> 
> Apt is the only package manager I use that calls it "remove" instead
> of "uninstall". Off the top of my head: pip (Python), brew (macOS),
> cargo (Rust), gem (Ruby) and npm (JavaScript) all call it "uninstall".
> The only exceptions I can think of are ArchLinux, which uses single
> letter flags that I forget and yarn (JavaScript), which uses "remove"
> but also uses "add" instead of install, so that makes more sense.
> 
> It's also slightly faster when you just installed something to add
> "un" to the previous command instead of deleting the whole word and
> typing out "remove".
> 
> I have been using Ubuntu/Debian for close to 10 years and I just made
> this mistake for the umpteenth time this morning, which prompted me to
> come looking for this bug.

Sure. I've been adding a bunch of undocumented synonyms and spellings
for a while now, so this is fine.

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