Aptitude should have a possibility to edit/add packages' repositories (sources.list)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

Binary package hint: aptitude

Aptitude is a great package manager, but one important thing is missing - a possibility to add/edit packages' repositories (sources.list file or files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder).
This possibility exists in the majority of package managers, like synaptic or smartpm, so why aptitude users should exit from aptitude and run "editor /etc/apt/sources.list" manually when they wanna add or edit software repositories ? When Ubuntu 6.06 was released, editing packages repositories in text mode became even harder - user should care not only about sources.list file, but also about files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder :(

I think it's not hard to add an editing ability of packages' repositories in aptitude by showing contents of the files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ folder + /etc/apt/sources.list file, letting user to select wanted entry and then starting command:

editor 'file, which contains user's chosen entry'

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

I am confirming that this is indeed a missing feature in aptitude.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

closing unnecessary Baltix task