Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...
>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
Theodore> On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 12:18:59AM +1000, Drew Parsons
Theodore> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:29:42AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
>> >
>> > What I'd *like* to be able to do is to issue a command which
>> displays > all of the packages for which new packages are
>> eligible. Today, > "apt-get -u upgrade" does a nice job of
>> that, modulo not dealing with > recommended packages. I don't
>> want to wade through pages and pages > of packages to find out
>> what's going to be installed.
>>
>> cat >> /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
Theodore> Show-Upgraded merely avoids my needing to specify the -u
Theodore> option to apt-get (which by now is a reflex).
Theodore> What I was asking for was a way for apt-get to display a
Theodore> list of packages which are recommended and/or suggested
Theodore> by the upgraded packages, and then asking the user a
Theodore> yes/no question if he/she would like to install all of
Theodore> the suggested packages. As far as I know, there's no
Theodore> way to do that apt; the only way is to use the horror
Theodore> which is dselect.
The Apt developers have I think rightly argued that this would be a
layering violation. apt-get was never really intended as the primary
packaging tool that a lot of users would use. The hope was that
people would use tools like aptitude or console-apt.
However people really seem to want a CLI tool. It's not clear how to
deal with recommends well in a CLI.
If you have ideas on how to present the interface they would certainly be welcome.
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