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I mean at least that wouldn't actually fuck up your system since it'll just return a command not found.
Installing incompatible versions of stuff though... I've killed Linux installations by doing that.
That's fair, I think a message saying something like "apt is used for debian based distributions" or whatever like that might be a good idea, but it maeks u tink if you should be putting that stuff in the first place.