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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.5-2
Severity: wishlist
Please say
"Remove ALL OF the following packages:", on this:
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) libany-moose-perl
2) libgnupg-interface-perl
3) libmouse-perl
4) signing-party
Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Else one doesn't know if you mean SOME OF or ONE OF or who knows.
(P.S., if they enter a number, the are surprised to get some "show" output.)
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tags 569128 + wontfix
stop
Hi,
2010-02-10 08:29 [email protected]:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.1.5-2
Severity: wishlist
Please say
"Remove ALL OF the following packages:", on this:
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
1) libany-moose-perl
2) libgnupg-interface-perl
3) libmouse-perl
4) signing-party
Tier: Safe actions, Remove packages (10000)
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Else one doesn't know if you mean SOME OF or ONE OF or who knows.
In the absence of "SOME OF / ONE OF" and with the phrase as it is, it
looks pretty unambiguous to me. The only way to express "SOME OF / ONE
OF" is to mention something like that explicitly (e.g. "Choose one of
these packages to remove"). In the absence of that, it can only mean
one thing.
Nobody seems to have seconded this bug or submitted duplicates in many
years, so it must be pretty clear for almost everyone. Even if
confusing the first or second time, one should get the hang of it quite
quickly.
If this was to be modified, many phrases of the interface would have to
be modified, and I think that the resulting text can be seen as
redundant by other people, and I don't think that there's a real gain in
doing this.
So closing it, after many years gathering dust.
(P.S., if they enter a number, the are surprised to get some "show" output.)
The numbers are there to show information about this action:
====================
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] 1
Action "1": Removing openscenegraph-dbgsym
Package: openscenegraph-dbgsym
Version: 3.2.2+dfsg1-1
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Priority: extra
Section: debug
Maintainer: Loic Dachary (OuoU) <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 49.9 M
Depends: openscenegraph (= 3.2.2+dfsg1-1)
Conflicts: openscenegraph-dbgsym:i386
Description: Debug symbols for openscenegraph
Homepage: http://www.openscenegraph.org/
This action was selected because openscenegraph-dbgsym depends upon
openscenegraph (= 3.2.2+dfsg1-1).
Enter "r 1" to prevent this action from appearing in new solutions.
Enter "a 1" to require that new solutions include this action if possible.
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] ?
====================
If users are surprised after typing some number and seeing random
inputs, perhaps it's good that they are surprised and that they are
presented with a opportunity learn something useful. It can prod them
to type '?' to learn more, or to use "r 1" and "a 1" to guide the
resolver to more useful solutions quicker in the future.
Removing the numbers from there would be a bad move, I think.
Cheers.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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