Re: aptitude, recommends, suggests
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:12:40PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
...
> > > Somewhat at cross purposes to the above, I think it would be better if
> > > aptitude could default suggested packages to not installed, but display
> > > them anyway as suggestions on the dependency resolution screen (or on
> > > its closest existing counterpart, the screen you get when you hit 'g').
> >
> > It is a menu configuration item under dependency..
> >
> > Automatically resolve dependencies of a package when it is selected.
> > [X] Automatically fix broken packages before installing or removing
> > [X] Install Recommended packages automatically
> > [X] Install Suggested packages automatically
> > [X] Remove unused packages automatically
>
> No, those knobs control whether aptitude auto-selects all recommended
> and suggested packages. My suggestion is that aptitude behave more like
> dselect for suggestions -- display suggested packages to the user so they
> can easily select them, but do not select them by default.
So you mean:
Resolve dependencies of a package when it is selected.
( ) automatically, (*) prompt, ( ) prompt with rule below, ( ) never.
Rule: [ ]
Fix broken packages before installing or removing
( ) automatically, (*) prompt, ( ) prompt with rule below, ( ) never.
Rule: [ ]
Install Recommended packages
( ) automatically, (*) prompt, ( ) prompt with rule below, ( ) never.
Rule: [ ]
Install Suggested packages
( ) automatically, (*) prompt, ( ) prompt with rule below, ( ) never.
Rule: [ ]
Remove unused packages
( ) automatically, (*) prompt, ( ) prompt with rule below, ( ) never.
Rule: [ ]
Here, I am thinking "rule" as a way to tell what are preselected.
Something like
"( doc | dev | fr | bin ), dep<100"
selects all packages belonging to "doc=documentation",
"dev=development", "fr=french", or, "bin=normal-binary" whose dependency
counts are less than 100.
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