Quoting Alan BRASLAU ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thursday 13 November 2008 07:25:00 Christian Perrier wrote: > > severity 505467 wishlist > > retitle 505467 Please document options to launch aptitude in text mode > > I rather liked the title of the bug report; it was precise and to the point.
Well, in my opinion, no. It is giving lessons to the developers of the tool (among which I am not) and they don't need lessons. I would probably have reacted less angrily if the bug report hadn't been overflated and the text had been less patronizing... ...which is fairly hilarious anyway as the main aptitude developer is anything but a GUI junkie...or someone who needs people explaining him how computing was back in the 20th century. > > > This is Debian *experimental*, ie a place where you should expect > > surprises and also new thigns to happen, particularly during the days > > where Lenny is frozen for release. > > Surprise indeed. I touch experimental in order to install kde4 > "the debian way". I guess that I made a mistake in letting though > an update to aptitude. Well, to avoid such surprises you probably need to avoid installing experimental packages by default for everything. This probably comes from a too wide use of Pinning settings in your apt.conf file. > You have no right being (deeply) annoyed. This IS a bug report: > an application described as being text-based should NOT present > a gui interface. Does vim run gui by default? How about a gtk > version of mutt? Maybe cat should open a new window?? > I was deeply annoyed to see such an affront, and this motivated > the bug report. I understand this was an honest mistake as you were thinking that this change was flowing through unstable. Still, I think that overflating the bug report is not necessarily the best idea in such cases. Depending on developers, some might consider this quite rude and miss your point. > > Thanks for the answer and the solution. I've already downgraded > aptitude and hope that the developers will have come to their senses > before pushing a new gtk-default version into unstable. > > Alan > > P.S. some of us did learn how to type, and still like using the keyboard. That's definitely better to write mails, for sure. I tried copy/paste from a charmap applet and this is really slow..:-) --
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