On Thursday 13 November 2008 07:25:00 Christian Perrier wrote: > severity 505467 wishlist > retitle 505467 Please document options to launch aptitude in text mode
I rather liked the title of the bug report; it was precise and to the point. The retitle and wishlish severity are polite, but betray the report. > This is Debian *experimental*, ie a place where you should expect > surprises and also new thigns to happen, particularly during the days > where Lenny is frozen for release. Surprise indeed. I touch experimental in order to install kde4 "the debian way". I guess that I made a mistake in letting though an update to aptitude. > So, please do not inflate bug reports. I'm not even sure that such a > bug report is worth it as I'm really sure that Danial Burrows will > document the new GTK-related options, provide a way to easily avoid the > GTK interface and even maybe provide it by default for GUI-challenged > folks. I try to keep my system GTK-free, as much as possible (remember kde4...). What a shock it was to see aptitude come-up gtk. > PS for non French-speaking users: "bon sang de bonsoir" is a way to > mumble strongly...more or less...and show that I'm somewhat deeply > annoyed when someone comes up giving lessons about what Debian should > be to folks (those not being /me) who develop a great tool for years > and are perectly aware of what they're doing. You have no right being (deeply) annoyed. This IS a bug report: an application described as being text-based should NOT present a gui interface. Does vim run gui by default? How about a gtk version of mutt? Maybe cat should open a new window?? I was deeply annoyed to see such an affront, and this motivated the bug report. Thanks for the answer and the solution. I've already downgraded aptitude and hope that the developers will have come to their senses before pushing a new gtk-default version into unstable. Alan P.S. some of us did learn how to type, and still like using the keyboard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
