[Aptitude-devel] Bug#807098: don't ask "Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]" if there is nothing to do
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
jidanni at jidanni.org
Sat Dec 5 10:52:27 UTC 2015
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.4-2
Severity: wishlist
No big deal, but here aptitude knows to not ask us
"Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]",
# aptitude full-upgrade
...
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) libperl5.22 [Not Installed]
2) perl [5.20.2-6 (now, unstable)]
3) perl-base [5.20.2-6 (now, unstable)]
4) perl-doc [5.20.2-6 (now, unstable)]
5) perl-modules-5.22 [Not Installed]
6) xserver-xorg-core [2:1.17.3-2 (now, unstable)]
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 4 (+0) upgradable, 49736 (+0) new.
#
Where here, with the same
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
we are asked:
# aptitude purge ~c
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Current status: 0 (+0) broken, 4 (+0) upgradable, 49736 (+0) new.
#
So maybe it shouldn't ask in the latter case too.
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