About time-- I always thought it was absurd for them to keep apt-get and apt-cache separate "for historic reasons." I used to have the hardest time explaining that the occasional new ubuntu users (to say nothing of all the people who were convinced that they needed to type "apt get [packagename]" then "apt install [packagename]".

Last time I tried to use just apt, its help pages warned that it was experimental, and there was still basic functionality which was either not implemented, or implemented differently from the regular apt-* tools.

I'd very much prefer to standardize on plain apt, but it doesn't seem ready yet.

Nice. There were a couple of things that were 'apt-cache', I could never remember which, I gather 'apt' does those too?