On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:33:00PM +0200, Rainer Zocholl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > [EMAIL PROTECTED](Daniel Burrows) 14.06.06 19:46 > > > > As I understand it, this is a feature request that "aptitude show" > >should display the currently installed version by default? > > Too, yes. > > > But: > > 1st. > At least it would be required that "aptitude show" does not > declare the first found package as "State:installed"! > That seems to be a bug because when one version is installed, > "aptitude -v show" indicates all versions as "installed".
Fair enough. > 2nd > If an unknown parameter like "-t " is given, aptitude should > give a warning like "ignored parameter '-t testing'" > and not silently ignore it. It is a legal command-line argument for aptitude, it just doesn't do what you want. :-) > 3rd (maybe needs discussion) > If for an uninstalled package is asked, it should reply with the > version which would be installed by default as defined > in That happens already AFAIK. > I thought "aptitude show" was an replacement for > "apt-cache policy". I don't know who told you that. It's a replacement for apt-cache show. Daniel
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