Package: aptitude Version: 0.8.13-5+b1 Severity: wishlist Even with Aptitude::CmdLine::Always-Prompt true there are some cases when prompting still doesn't make sense: # aptitude full-upgrade No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]