ubuntu & kubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Thorny wrote:

> From the description of apt:
> "Advanced front-end for dpkg
> This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager.
> It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a
> simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages.

Never believe a programmer's description.  APT is not the front-end,
whatever he says, APT is the whole package.  apt-get IS the apt interface.

> I don't think it is an accident that the CLI tool apt-get starts with the
> letters "a", "p", "t".

Of course it isn't.  If you look at the apt package, all the binaries in it
begin with 'apt' - including apt-get.

> Nor do I think that it is an accident the terminal 
> interface aptitude (which you correctly state can also work as a CLI
> command similar to apt-get) starts with "apt".

Of course it isn't, but they DONT front-end apt.  They are _implementations_
of apt, and they are _front-ends_ for dpkg.
-- 
derek