Hi, 2012/3/20 Daniel Hartwig <[email protected]>: > [...] > In general, the online help file is meant to be a terse overview of using > the software. It does not need to explain all of the many intricacies of > using aptitude, that is what the manual is for. > > > Personally, I am not satisifed with this patch in it's current form.
Would you prefer to reject the patch entirely and not modify this? >> + Please note that starting of aptitude in default mode does not set >> "planned >> +action" to "upgrade" on all upgradable packages. You must explicitly press >> +"U". > > I don't see the need for this. It is verbose and there is no reason a > user should expect upgrades to be selected automatically upon startup. > > No other programs do this unless explicitly instructed. Maybe not in the apt-world, but I'm wondering if he was thinking of other OS/programs with automatic upgrades. To be honest, it struck to me as strange that a Debian Developer was confused about this, where for me these things were already well known, so I guess that he's not the only one having problem understanding things. I wanted to consult the rest of you because I'm not sure about what's better to do. >> + i - install (candidate version) >> + r - reinstall (current version) >> + u - upgrade (candidate version) > > This is incorrect: neither 'i' or 'u' always indicate an action on the > candidate version. It is obvious that reinstall acts on the current > version. I misread that and with 'i' and 'u' I though that he meant the action of pressing the keys, which indeed acts only on current or candidate (until you select more carefully the version desired). Also, I think that in general he wanted to remark that, by default, install and upgrade act on just one candidate version (among the several ones possibly available); and that the candidate version is not necessarily the newest one and that it's not only a binary decision between current<>newer. So on the whole, I think that maybe things can be made more clear, but I don't know if it's worth bothering and maybe this patch as is doesn't cut it. In any case I'd like to get the bug report closed :) Cheers. _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
