You'd just be replacing one inconsistency with another: you couldn't use any command names as package names or the reverse without some kind of special case, wh

You'd just be replacing one inconsistency with another: you couldn't use any command names as package names or the reverse without some kind of special case, which would be just as bad. The real solution would be to get rid of the split between apt-get, apt-cache, &c., which is a real UI issue, and just use a single 'apt' command. Then you'd have 'apt install package' - two of the usability issues with 'apt-get' go away if you do that: the need to use a bunch of other tools for no good reason and the '-get' wart at the end. And guess what: that happened in Debian and its derivatives a fair while ago. It's just that nobody made a big deal of it. Here's the relevant section of the handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.apt-get.html