[Aptitude-devel] Bug#341434: aptitude: please consider allowing different configurations for interactive and non-interactive mode

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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


2016-04-26 20:13 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>
>In general, I think that the number of options currently supported by
>aptitude (over 100) and the complexity of its interrelationship is quite
>high, and I suspect that most users expect that the options that they
>set in curses mode apply also to the command line, except when named
>otherwise (there are specific UI and CmdLine options).
>
>I think that complicating this a bit more by adding a layer on top can
>create more problems [1] than it solves [2].
>
>[1] users confused about which changes apply to which mode, or
>   forgetting that settings on one file don't apply to others
>
>[2] this is 10 years with no seconds, and I don't recall to see any
>   other bug report requesting this
>
>
>So in principle I am not considering doing this unless there's a
>compelling reason / example.

So marking as +wontfix and closing, for the reasons above.


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