Edgy->Feisty: option to download everything in advance?

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:32:54 +0200
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

 [and  I wrote]
> > apt-get install -f
> > 
> > is just as valid as
> > 
> > apt-get -f install
> > 
> Hmm, is the apt-get man page incomplete? It seems to give no info about
> the option placement at all:

[snip]

Interesting question. Consulting the apt-howto , I see that it uses, for
example

apt-get --reinstall install <packagename>

whereas I have always used 

apt-get install --reinstall <packagename>

... probably because that was the order I saw the command given on IRC in
#debian when I was learning this stuff.

Evidently the "canonical" or "accepted" form is the first , but both
"work (tm)"

Peter