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



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