Hi, > Le Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 06:02:27PM +0300, Eugene Lychauka a écrit : > > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > > > Here we can read: > > > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command line interface for > > package management, it is recommended to use apt-get." > > > > What is meant by interactive interface and non-interactive interface > > here? I understand it as typing "aptitude install foo" is > > non-interactive interface, and the text-user interface of aptitude > > launched by typing "aptitude" is interactive interface. Am I right?
You are right. > > Some people assure me that not. Who are they and what are they telling? On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:40:22AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The same text is found in Squeeze and Lenny's release notes, at the "What's > new > in the distribution?" chapter. Have you considered to propose to the > maintainers of the release notes to delete that part completely if you thing > it > is confusing, since it brings no new information at all ? At one point we recommended aptitude for everything. Since it caused some trouble in 2010, we settled for this new text quoted in the above. See http://bugs.debian.org/411280 It was fixed to be in current text in 2010 as I recall. So this text is from Sarge I think. The essence of this long bug discussion can be summarized: > Steve Langasek wrote in 2010 http://bugs.debian.org/411280#35 > I think it's clear that the behavior of aptitude in releases after etch has > not been stable and predictable enough for us to recommend it in the release > notes as a non-interactive upgrade interface. I will submit a patch to the > release notes to address this. Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130409154725.GB15352@goofy.localdomain