On Sun 13 Nov 2016 at 11:16:51 (+0000), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2016 04:09:13 David Wright wrote: > > > I'd like to know how you found the above. Running aptitude 0.6.11 on > > > vtty3 here as root in 8.6 I'm unable to find anything like that from > > > its Options menu, or anywhere else. > > > > I type "?" which gives a list of key bindings. About 30 lines down it says > > Control-t: Activate or deactivate the menu. > etc. > > I assume you mean n-curses aptitude. I meant at the CLI.
Oh, I was just answering Felix's question of Brian. For the CLI, I think you (as the appropriate user) just: cat /etc/apt/apt.conf /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/* ~/.aptitude/config | less but then I assume you need to study man 5 apt.conf to ascertain which options and settable, and which are defaults, etc. and man <command> for any defaulting options that might take precedence over the configuration files' options. The curses help that I described has already merged the options from configuration files and the commandline, hence the displayed Default and Value lines. Cheers, David.
