On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:38:22AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Neither do I. Aptitude must do something wrong here.
aptitude tries to be quieter (in particular, to not emit control characters) when its output isn't a tty: if(quiet == 0 && !isatty(1)) aptcfg->SetNoUser("quiet", 1); After that code was written, someone asked for "quiet=2" to have a different meaning from "quiet=1". Tada! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]