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and subject line Re: provide feedback when forbidding packages
has caused the Debian Bug report #595888,
regarding aptitude: forbid-version should prompt for each target
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.1
Severity: wishlist
Allow us to examine what happens when we use forbid-version:
# aptitude forbid-version somepackage
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
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I would provide some feedback.
I would say instead:
Forbid version xxx of package yyy [Y/n/?]
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tags 595888 + wontfix
stop
2010-09-07 01:06 [email protected]:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.3-3.1
Severity: wishlist
Allow us to examine what happens when we use forbid-version:
# aptitude forbid-version somepackage
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
#
I would provide some feedback.
This was the original request, taking specially into account the
subject, and merged with others for that reason.
This functionality was implemented in 0.7.4, when using -v (for #270033,
#638841 and duplicates).
I would say instead:
Forbid version xxx of package yyy [Y/n/?]
This bug was first merged and then unmerged from the others due to this
bit, and retitled to "forbid-version should prompt for each target".
I don't think that the bit above is equivalent to the new title. The
original request seems to me that suggests to replace the generic
question ("do you want to continue") to a more specific question,
including confirming the actual version of the package that would be
forbidden (a single package, in the example). This is not the same as
confirm individually every package (which can be many, when using
patterns in the arguments).
Furthermore, I think that having to confirm the version of every package
is not a good idea. Beginners/naive users will not use this highly
specialised command, and if they do, they would not use it with
patterns. When users go to the effort of constructing a pattern and use
it with that command, which is long to type and not similar to any other
(cannot be mistyped by mistake), it is very unlikely that they want to
confirm individually each package (there would be more requests to do
this, in that case). And even in that case, the action is not specially
annoying or destructive, and can be undone in several ways.
So I am marking as +wontfix and closing, because:
a) as I explained, I don't think that it's a good idea to do it
b) and no other soul in the universe did actually take any step towards
addressing the problems commented in this bug report in the 5+ years
that this has been open
Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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