@Gilles: Ī̲ fixed gibberish in titles in about dozen instances. As for editing tags out, such tags as linux seem to be misused on both counts (blatantly overused, but sometimes missed).
It’s not very easy for a user to determine whether his/her question is Linux-specific or applies to any POSIX-oriented environment.
Possibly question editors should be educated. Several editors that can think quickly (like me and @Gilles) will not hurt. But there should exist some guideline about editing ignorance out without damaging the question.
IMHO titles may be mercilessly rewritten if needed (because they could help much to identify the question), but changing terminology in the body should be done carefully and on a serious pretext only.
First-priority task (making a good title) wasn’t accomplished, whereas VT was partially renamed to “virtual console”. Andries Brouwer states it’s perfectly correct to use the term “VT”.
By the way, on fixing it, Ī̲ forgot to add linux myself.
This was also one of obvious things to do by previous editor(s). My attention was distracted to several other things.
And s.n. “review audit” as well. Once this crappy software scolded me because Ī̲ took an action opposite to the one taken by the majority. Ī̲ hate such a distrust.
But fortunately, this latter thing can be turned off programmatically.
> Note that character classes would rather refer to the [:class:] used within bracket expressions. The [-_[:blank:]0-5] bracket expression would match a character that is either _, - or any character in the blank character class or any character in the range 0 to 5.
@terdon Well just that. using "character class" for [^abc] is confusing as character classes usually refer to things like [:blank:] [:alpha:] which contrary to [^abc] is about classification of characters.
I suppose the best wording to avoid confusion is to call [abc] or [[:blank:]] a bracket expression, and [:blank:] a POSIX character class (to avoid confusion with other usages of "character class").
Note that you can use a "POSIX character class" within a bracket expression, but a POSIX character class outsite a bracket expression is not treated as such. The [:blank:] regular expression matches a :, b, l, a, n or k character.
@FaheemMitha Well, that'd depend on if small Alpha Centaurian furry creatures share human aesthetics. Who knows, maybe they actually want to explore the storm drains?
@derobert No, it uses the apt shared library. apt-get is a standalone binary which also used the apt shared library. Which is called libapt-pkg, I think.
I don't know if the aptitude solver is modular enough to use with apt-get, as a plugin. Probably not.
Hello. Is “review audit” enabled on the site at all? Ī̲ passed through four review items (first posts and late answers) happily without getting into this heck.
@IncnisMrsi it might only be on the bigger sites (like Stack Overflow).
@FaheemMitha both apt and aptitude seem to have cases where they suggest silly things. E.g., I just asked aptitude to upgrade inkscape. One of its suggestions on how to resolve dependencies? Uninstall it.
for example, I still consider my gcc 5.2 based system "bleeding edge" because of things like gcc 5 not being officially supported yet in gentoo (until all blocking bugs are resolved), needing to apply a patch to gcc to be able to compile wine, etc
Serious answer is it depends on who you ask. The answer you'll get from a sysadmin at a big bank will be a lot different than from a teenager playing with Linux on his home server.
but others might always consider my build bleeding edge because I'm perpetually running very new versions of things.
though I'll counter that I could be truly bleeding edge and tell my system to track live source repositories instead of upstream releases and build from those :)
I did that for a bit when plasma 5 was about to come out. My whole KDE install was built from their live git repos. a bit insane really
root@Zia:/home/anthony# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
and of course, newer version of gcc can generate code for newer CPU instruction sets and there may be other optimizations. e.g. LTO is improving with each iteration
@roaima For future reference, if you're so impatient as to post a comment complaining about downvotes in the time it takes to write the explanatory comment, you don't get an explanatory comment from me.
