[Aptitude-devel] Bug#435829: aptitude-[create|run]-state-bundle commands very annoying

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: close -1


Hi Lennart,

2007-08-03 14:45 Lennart Sorensen:
>Subject: aptitude-[create|run]-state-bundle commands very annoying
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.6.1-1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>The new commands added to aptitude aptitude-create-state-bundle and
>aptitude-run-state-bundle are really annoying.  After these were
>added tab completion has become much more annoying.  Fro years I have
>been able to type apti<tab>command and get aptitude command.  Now I get
>aptitudecommand unless I remember to hit a space after tab.
>
>Given aptitude-create-state-bundle/aptitude-run-state-bundle appear to
>be only for debug purposes, could they be moved to /usr/lib/aptitude or
>/usr/share/aptitude so that when someone wants to do a debug state save,
>they just have to type the whole path to the script.  Many other
>packages put rarely needed scripts in such a place to avoid poluting the
>normal PATH environment.

After almost a decade, things got worse over the years after this report
(with the binary named aptitude-curses and the now-disabled
aptitude-gtk, etc).  I think that it's too late to address this now.

The solution is simple anyway, just adding the extra space, or creating
aliases if the same mistakes happen too often, etc.

It's a common problem with command-line interfaces that this issues
arise when programs / options / files change between systems, appear in
newer versions, etc.  Even if we prevent this today, maybe tomorrow
somebody comes up with aptitude-on-steroids and "breaks" things again.

So closing the bug now.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>