Re: Anything to do?

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   Alfred doesn't like apt.  I spoke to him about it ages ago.  I
   think he was looking to use stow in some fashion.

apt isn't a package manager.  Hence you cannot compare it to stow, or
even dpkg.  apt-get uses dpkg to install all packages and does some
fancy calculations so that you as a user can be lazy and not worry
about what packages the program you wish to install depends on.

GNU will/must have something like apt-get.