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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2016-06-08 15:38 GMT+01:00 Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>:
> 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.

Good solution as well, I have to admit :-)


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