== Why _apt-get_ is not my favorite application

In a nutshell:
 # apt-get upgrade
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
 Need to get 1351kB of archives. After unpacking 77.8kB will be freed.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Truly, the count of packages to be fiddled with is more important that
*telling me what they are*, by default. Here, apt-get manages to be
simultaneously over-chatty and uninformative.

All too often apt-get doesn't seem like a program that is really at
home with Unix and the Unix way of things. For all that it's a command
line program, it doesn't feel much like part of a system; instead it
seems to be its own little universe. As a result I wind up grinding my
teeth most of the times that I have to deal with it.

Other irritations:
* why doesn't 'apt-get upgrade' default to doing an 'apt-get update'
  at the start? Local caches and databases are an implementation
  detail, not a user interface.
* why is it so hard to get just a list of the packages that 'apt-get
  upgrade' will upgrade? (A list of the package URIs is *not* the same
  thing.)
* the verbosity.

I have no idea why people love it so much. Personally I like _yum_ a
whole lot more (although it's gotten more verbose in Fedora Core 4).