[Aptitude-devel] Bug#833310: Bug#833310: option to make "forget new" non-interactive as before

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Manuel,

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> >Since "forget new" became interactive the new aptitude behaves
> >differently than aptitude in older versions. This makes managing
> >a set of hosts in parallel via tools like "cssh" pretty painful.
> >Some host require an additional confirmation step (for a trivial
> >operation).
[...]
> If it's the curses interface, instead of 'f' you just have to press
> (inject?) 'f+Enter', so for me it's quite trivial and I don't think
> that you mean this case.

I'm very sure that's exactly the case he meant.

Imagine the following: Use cssh. mssh, pconsole, tmux or any other
tool which multiplexes keyboard input onto multiple machines via SSH:

One machine is running Testing and one machine Unstable.

Now you type "aptitude<Enter><down>[" and you see on both machines the
opened branch of the New Packages list. Now you press "f" and one
machine already forgot the New Packages list while the other still
needs you to press "<Enter>". But if you press "<Enter>" on both, the
Testing machine opens one level of the Upgradable Packages list
instead.

Does this help you to understand what Harald wants?

		Regards, Axel
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