apt-get front end

[George Bonser]

On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Jim Franklin wrote:

> Hi folks 
>   I came across this at the debian mailing lists section:
> 
> deity
>      Debian GNU/Linux will get a new, friendly frontend to its package
> maintenance system. Its codename is deity (now known as APT) and its
> development is discussed here. The -digest is open to everyone. 
>      Moderated: no     Subscription: deity-developers only 
>          deity-digest is a read-only, digestified version.

That name was dropped ... what, over a year ago?  The name apt was decided
to remain as the name of the tool. Other names were suggest as well, such
as "trove".