Author: Christian Marillat Date: To: dmo-discussion Subject: Re: PowerPC is now unstable/sid - requested for deb-multimedia as well
On 27 mai 2017 18:46, Linux User #330250 <linuxuser330250@???> wrote:
> On 2017-05-26 22:02 Guillaume Membré wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> just to add my 2 cents : apt is for endusers with fancy progress bar, apt-get is
>> for scripts & automation, both works the same way !
>
> You're right. And apt-get still works. It's just that all Debian
> tutorials and manuals have been changed to use apt instead of apt-get,
> so I thought this might be a good idea for deb-multimedia as well.
From the apt manpage, apt isn't apt-get :
,---- | apt(8) just changes the default value of some options (see apt.conf(5)
| and specifically the Binary scope). So you should prefer using
| these commands (potentially with some additional options enabled) in
| your scripts as they keep backward compatibility as much as possible. `----
