aptitude "why" command (was: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove)
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:23:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer was heard to say:
> > BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new
> > trick, the "why/why-not" command:
[...]
> You should also be able to get this info from the install Y/n prompt
> by typing "w <package>".
Very nice. That is one of the reasons I like aptitude so much: I have
easy access to the relevant information about dependency problems
whenever I have to make a decision.
> The resolver prompt doesn't have this feature
> yet because it should probably produce slightly different information.
>
> You can thank this list for the feature, I got the idea when I noticed
> that something like 99% of the questions people have about apt(itude) are
> of the form "WTF is this package being installed/removed/not installed?"
The next time I hear the tired old "Free software developers only want
to scratch their own itches; they never care about the problems of
non-geek users" tirade, I can simply refer people to this thread.
Thanks.
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