On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:23:03PM +0100, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > After almost a decade, things got worse over the years after this report > (with the binary named aptitude-curses and the now-disabled > aptitude-gtk, etc). I think that it's too late to address this now. > > The solution is simple anyway, just adding the extra space, or creating > aliases if the same mistakes happen too often, etc. > > It's a common problem with command-line interfaces that this issues > arise when programs / options / files change between systems, appear in > newer versions, etc. Even if we prevent this today, maybe tomorrow > somebody comes up with aptitude-on-steroids and "breaks" things again. > > So closing the bug now.
Well I must admit my solution was to stop using aptitude entirely and just use apt-get. aptitude's resolver got too noisy and annoying to put up with years ago so it stopped being at all useful as a tool to me. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel

