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. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
