On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 23:33, Marco Ippolito <maroloc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Gotcha. I like the long option names there, almost all of which are > immediately > suggestive of what the change of behaviour might be: > > --simulate, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon, --no-act Yes, and my impression/guess is that because 'apt' docs describe it as being basically a front end with more convenient defaults for interactive use, what happens when 'apt' is given these (or other similar) options that it does not recognise as its own as documented in the 'apt' man page, it behaves the same as if it handed these options off to whatever command it runs as its back-end. So 'apt -s install ...' behaves like 'apt-get -s install ...'. I don't know if that's literally how it is implemented, but it's the general behaviour that I would expect. 'apt' is still under development so the details of it's behaviour might change between releases.
