From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: Plan for 0.9.0 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:09:41 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87io6b943m.fsf@gnu.org> <878u75ql2q.fsf@gnu.org> <87eggxfc5o.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87k2qpp1ko.fsf@gnu.org> <20151014170227.3a293b5a@openmailbox.org> <874mhsiae1.fsf@openmailbox.org> <87oafzz28v.fsf@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48989) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn2td-0001Xg-Tj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:10:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn2tK-0001DI-F2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:09:58 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22c]:35390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zn2tK-0001Cj-AU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:09:42 -0400 Received: by igbkq10 with SMTP id kq10so10495172igb.0 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 04:09:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87oafzz28v.fsf@openmailbox.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mathieu Lirzin Cc: guix-devel On 16/10/2015, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Talking about interactive CLIs, in general I am not a fan of it too, >> especially after you get used to the program. That's why I am using >> plain apt-get instead of aptitude which uses ncurses. However, I will >> say it is sometimes useful. > > Isn't =E2=80=98apt-get upgrade=E2=80=99 interactive ? > You are right. :) But you can add -y to bypass the question. So it seems there are really 3 ways to do it. 1. no interaction at all (Do what I say!) 2. ask a "big" yes/no question (like interactive `apt-get') 3. ask for every directories (like interactive `rm') Cheers, Alex