[Aptitude-devel] Bug#408493: aptitude: Should have a possibility to edit/add packages' repositories (sources.list)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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


Hi Mantas,

2007-01-26 08:29 Mantas Kriaučiūnas:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.4-1
>
>Aptitude is a great package manager, but one important thing is missing
>- a possibility to add/edit packages' repositories (sources.list file or
>files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder).
>This possibility exists in the majority of package managers, like
>synaptic or smartpm, so why aptitude users should exit from aptitude and
>run "editor /etc/apt/sources.list" manually when they wanna add or edit
>software repositories ? With apt 0.6.43 release, editing packages
>repositories in text mode became even harder - user should care not only
>about sources.list file, but also about files in
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder :(
>
>I think it's not hard to add an editing ability of packages'
>repositories  in aptitude by showing contents of the files from
>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder + /etc/apt/sources.list file, letting
>user to select wanted entry and then starting command:
>
>editor 'file, which contains user's chosen entry'

Going out of aptitude (needs suspending, but no need to quit aptitude)
and edit a file with one's favourite editor --something that doesn't
happen every day or every week-- shouldn't be that much of a problem.

Duplicating this functionality in aptitude has its consequences, even if
only diverting time from solving other problems.  Maintaining it over
the years, documenting and translating it is not "free" either.

Since a while ago can be done with:

  apt edit-sources


So I am closing it as wontfix, after 9+ years and no indication that
this is going to be solved now.


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