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Originally Posted by cynwulf
The change I was referring to is the change from "apt-get source" to "apt-src".
As I understand it "apt" also replaced "apt-get" at some point?
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In a fashion,
apt-src acts like an apt-get for source packages rather than binary packages, gathering together several commands involving source package management, whereas
apt-get source does only one thing i.e. downloads package source code.
apt-get will be here for many moons to come. In a similar way to apt-src, the aim of
apt is to gather together the functionality of apt-get, apt-cache, apt-mark etc. in a more cohesive and user-friendly way. I'm not a great fan of it (to me it's a little bit like the "We have 5 competing standards, let's create an all-encompassing one. Ah, now we have 6 competing standards" type of situation), but hey ho.