Re: Annoyances of aptitude
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 20:20:33 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
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> A minor issue that plagues me as a Sid user is the "broken packages"
> display. When I install foo that breaks package bar by conflicts of
> dependencies of dependencies (you get the idea), aptitude tells me that
> there are broken packages. That's nice to know, but it would be even
> better if aptitude could display a _list_ of these packages in the "g"
> view (I mean the summary that appears just before committing the changes).
> With the current release, I have to browse through the packages and hope
> to stumble on the broken ones.
Usually I just press l~b<Enter>
Limited views are (together with GC, and command-line search)
probably the three features of aptitude I couldn't live without.
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Michał Politowski -- mpol@charybda.icm.edu.pl
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