[Bug 1004225] Re: dramatic combination of apt-get and bash completion

[nesthib]

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Title:
  dramatic combination of apt-get and bash completion

Status in “bash-completion” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I don't know what to blame between apt-get, bash completion and
  myself… I'm reporting this as a bug but it can also be seen as an open
  question.

  I wanted to install a python related package but was missing the exact
  name when I was about to type it, thus I tried completion to list the
  names of python packages:

  sudo apt-get install python-[tab]

  which nicely produces the list of python-* packages
  scrolling the list a bit too far (using [enter]) it launched the command:

  sudo apt-get install python-

  resulting in the removal of python and a few hundreds of other
  packages depending on python.

  I know it's mostly based on a human mistake (I should have thought
  about the package name before…), but the result is pretty dramatic and
  I wonder if something could be done to prevent this?

  Maybe scrolling in completion shouldn't use [enter] but arrows or
  [space]

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