Comment 3 for bug 390793

When a person uses apt-get to install a package, they say

apt-get install packagename

It would make sense that

apt-get uninstall packagename

would have the desired effect. However, instead they are met with:

E: Invalid operation uninstall

Which is a rather unpleasant and confusing response. The problem is that these commands are asymmetric, a problem which is unfortunately common in the free software landscape.

The solution is trivial: add a simple alias to map 'uninstall' to the 'remove' function. I can fix this myself if somebody approves this bug.