On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:57:58PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:58:13 +0100 Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > [...] > > What happens after pinning is that I try q a few > > times and then press Ctrl+D because q does not do > > anything. It somehow does not occur to me that I > > would need to press n. > [...] > > > > So, it would be nice if you could allow q as an > > alias for n. > > Hello Julian, > thanks for your interest in improving apt-listbugs. > > However, I do not agree with the rationale of your feature request. > > If I understand correctly, you are referring to the question you get > after pinning some packages, that is: > > Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [N/?/...] > > What's unclear in this question? > The main options are shown in squared brackets, where it can be seen > that the default answer is "n" (that means "no, I don't want to > install/upgrade the packages"). You get the same result by simply > hitting [Enter], since, as I said, "n" is the *default* answer in this > case. > I cannot understand why you think that answering "q" would have any > effect. It's not one of the possible answers: please answer "?" and > take a look at the complete list possible answers. > > To conclude, I am sorry, but I am *not* going to add aliases just > because one user issues the wrong command and expects it to be > equivalent to the right command... > > I am closing this bug report now. > Bye.
It's not that the question is unclear. It's just that my muscle memory tells me to enter q to exit a program after having interacted with it. That's a reflex, I cannot control it. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.
