Bug#804793: closed by Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> (Re: Bug#804793: games-minesweeper: Please do not recommend 'aptitude' as minesweeper game)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-11-11 19:15 GMT+00:00 Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org>:
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> #804793: games-minesweeper: Please do not recommend 'aptitude' as minesweeper game
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> ---------- Mensagem encaminhada ----------
> From: Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de>
> To: 804793-done at bugs.debian.org
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> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 20:11:22 +0100
> Subject: Re: Bug#804793: games-minesweeper: Please do not recommend 'aptitude' as minesweeper game
> Am 11.11.2015 um 19:42 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
>> Package: games-minesweeper
>> Severity: wishlist
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The purpose of the aptitude package is completely different from being a game.
>> The reason why it includes a game it is a historical curiosity.
>>
>> And basically, it is a bit dangerous that people launch aptitude thinking that
>> it's a minesweeper game, very wrong things can happen in the system if used by
>> unexperienced users (it needs special ack with root password for the most
>> nefarious actions, but still).
>
> Hi,
>
> aptitude is not recommended by games-minesweeper, it is suggested. That
> is intentional because of the reasons you mentioned above. Nevertheless
> aptitude includes this nice little gimmick minesweeper game and thus
> games-minesweeper is the perfect place to mention it.
>
> Moreover on a standard Debian system aptitude will not be installed by
> default, except the user chooses to manually install the package. This
> is always a deliberate action by the system administrator. I am closing
> this bug report because these concerns are already addressed in my opinion.

It can easily happen that I am the admin of somebody else's system (my
daughter / sister / friend), install aptitude, and that they have the
root password just in case.

True, it is unlikely that there is any breakage because of this, but
anybody launching aptitude just to play minesweeper and enjoying it,
instead of any other programs available, it is much more unlikely (in
my opinion).

Anyway, the minesweeper in aptitude might be more short lived that
what you think, at which point the dependencies of the package will be
incorrect.


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