MAFM> Anyway, in the end I changed it only slightly, "aptitude -v update":
How about for plain aptitude, no -v.
I (happily) remember 10 years ago there was no such message.
Isn't it bad to output something the user doesn't understand even if
they didn't use -v?
Or maybe there should be a way to figure out what they mean via a -v -v
doubled, sort of like perl:
DESCRIPTION
The "diagnostics" Pragma
This module extends the terse diagnostics normally emitted by both the
perl compiler and the perl interpreter (from running perl with a -w
switch or "use warnings"), augmenting them with the more explicative
and endearing descriptions found in perldiag. Like the other pragmata,
it affects the compilation phase of your program rather than merely the
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