Ben Finney wrote: > Justin B Rye <[email protected]> writes: >> "Interactive" is a genuinely confusing misnomer; it turns out that >> it means "full-screen Text User Interface" versus "Command Line >> Interface", but what can it mean to recommend the *only* program >> with such a TUI as the *preferred* one? > > I don't think “interactive” is as confusing as you infer. It covers > programs like ‘aptitude’, ‘synaptic’, and other programs which interact > with the user continually while they run. This excludes ‘apt-get’, which > runs in what might be called “batch mode”.
But answering "y" to a CLI "really install?" prompt is also "interactive". If people can't imagine it confusing and misleading readers, here's me being genuinely confused and misled by it: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-english/2010/12/msg00058.html -- JBR - and today's single word in West Greenlandic is: Uqarituukasippungaasiit "Silly me, I went and spoke out of turn as usual!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
