[Aptitude-devel] Bug#588237: "Current status" looks like an error warning
MAFM> Current status: there are 287 updates available (4 added from last MAFM> run), 4629 newly available packages (3 less compared to last run), 3 MAFM> broken packages left (3 new from last run). I think I pretty much understand what that is finally saying, for what it's worth. By the way, the Current status line seems to be only printed if something is being installed. Today because $ aptitude full-upgrade No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] therefore I don't see it. So there is no way to check the Current status without having to install or remove packages probably. ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
[Aptitude-devel] Bug#588237: "Current status" looks like an error warning
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 ___ Aptitude-devel mailing list Aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
