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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:23:03PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> 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.

Well I must admit my solution was to stop using aptitude entirely and
just use apt-get.  aptitude's resolver got too noisy and annoying to
put up with years ago so it stopped being at all useful as a tool to me.

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Len Sorensen