Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1 Severity: minor I was trying to find an aptitude equivalent to the apt-get command:
apt-get -qq update which doesn't output anything on stdout (unless there is an error). The closest I could find was: aptitude -q10 update However, even when using an extreme value such as 10, aptitude still outputs: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Building tag database... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Building tag database... Technically speaking this is probably not a bug, more a wishlist item, as there's no guarantee as to what -q hides, but it seems consistent with most other commands that an excessive level of -q's should at least hide all normal (stdout) output. What do you think? One workaround, of course, is to use > /dev/null. Thanks for your work on aptitude, it's a great tool! Regards, Andrew. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.43.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
