RE: aptitude and cultural behaviour

["Julian Mehnle" <bulk@mehnle.net>]

Clytie Siddall wrote:
> I handled the Easter Egg script appropriately, I think, but:
>
> > src/main.cc:133
> > "This aptitude does not have Super Cow Powers.\n"
>
> has me a little confused.
>
> Does this have any technical meaning, or is it a throwaway line?

You may be missing some context here:

| $ apt-get --help | tail -1
|                        This APT has Super Cow Powers.
| $ apt-get moo
|          (__)
|          (oo)
|    /------\/
|   / |    ||
|  *  /\---/\
|     ~~   ~~
| ...."Have you mooed today?"...
| $ aptitude moo
| There are no Easter Eggs in this program.

`apt-get moo`/the cow is sort of an in-joke, and `aptitude moo` refers to
that.

> I could not translate it in anything like a literal fashion: [...]

You should translate those strings literally, referring to a cow.