On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:53 AM, David Prévot <taf...@debian.org> wrote: > Le 26/10/2013 03:45, Christian PERRIER a écrit : >> Quoting David Prévot (taf...@debian.org): >>> P.-S. : trying hard not to go the nitpicking way of challenging « je >>> vous dis » for a typing interface ;-). >> >> Oh, yes! Please challenge that wording. I hate it for years (including >> the English version, indeed) and probably just need a few more people >> to also hate it, to have it changed..:-) > > “Yes, do as I say!“ could simply be “Yes, really do that.”, that should > be enough given the context: > >> You are about to do something potentially harmful. >> To continue type in the phrase […] > > If we want to be louder about it, something like “Yes, I do understand > this can be harmful.” could be used.
I kinda like it in so far as it is the only place where apt-get is second- guessing what the user said it should do. So its the only place I have the chance to fanatically scream at a damn machine to just do as I say! ;) But I only read it once in a while in the code and now that I do that, I even see a bug here (oh dear); I guess my feeling would be different if I had to read that regularly in the wild / as a translator. Stepping back for a second and freeing myself from the consequences: How about dropping this question altogether? We have a flag which is (supposed to be) able to skip this question: --force-yes which is described as being potentially harmful in the manpage. Rational: Users who run into this question by 'accident' aren't saying yes to it; Users who know they will because they are changing e.g. the init system are just annoyed by the question. So how about: […] 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 5509 kB disk space will be freed. WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed: apt The outlined actions are potentially very harmful, so executing them is refused by default, but can be forced with the --force-yes flag. This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! # (I am open for a better suggestion regarding the actual message) It would be an interface change, but those aren't a problem, people depending on the old one could just keep using the old version. SCNR. What I really mean is: In this particular case, I really hope nobody is doing something as insane as depending on this. [0] What do you two think? Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] https://xkcd.com/1172/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
