OK. It definitely looks like you are someone who won't be reasoned with on this. APT as a set of tools is ancient. `apt` as a command isn't. It is handy, it's

OK. It definitely looks like you are someone who won't be reasoned with on this. APT as a set of tools is ancient. `apt` as a command isn't. It is handy, it's simpler and easier, it eliminates the nonsensical split between apt-get and apt-cache and aptitude and so on... and you can tell, because Debian adopted it. I like it. I use it all the time. The upstream project adopted it, but to you, that's bad, because it falsifies your angry claim. Yeah, no. End of thread.