On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com> was heard to say: > > > I've no trouble with either at the command line. The *curses > > > interface is highly non-intuitive (IMO). It, along with dselect, has > > > always struck me as just a little Martian. That's fine in vi or emacs > > > that you use all the time (so you learn it), but in a pkg mgr? > > > > Are there any terminal applications that you think are not Martian? I > > don't have a good handle on what you mean there. If you just mean that > > you have to learn the keystrokes ... that's probably not going to > > change; with the limited screen real estate on a terminal, I can't > > afford to put in buttons on everything. > > > > > So, Daniel, _consider_ (thanks :-) a wholesale interface re-design > > > (you've free rein), or offer choice of old or new via command line > > > switch, or something, a la view vs. vi? IFF "--new" is found on CL, > > > give 'em the new one? What'll the old one say when it sees that? > > > Hmm. Gotta be a better way. Env. var? > > > > One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package > > manager after you enter 500 configuration options to enable all the > > useful features. (hello, mutt) The new code will be the default > > behavior, with configuration options to selectively re-enable old > > behavior for people who prefer it. c.f. the change in the behavior > > of the installation commands several years ago. > > > > Daniel > > Daniel, > > I would suggest you use EMACS as a front end. oh that's a fabulous idea, but think about it. Something as obscure and hard to understand as aptitude is screaming to have vi as a frontend. A
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