On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:40:43AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> There were >> frequent posts to the list like "Aptitude wants to remove 150 >> packages!!!". They were using the CLI and didn't get the detailed >> explanation from aptitude that they would from the curses interface. > > Dumb question: Is there a way to back out of an aptitude transaction, if > you get some hairy list of dependencies you don't want to deal with? I've > gone through all the menus and if it's there, I'm looking past it. I've > successfully done it by manually adjusting each item in the list, but > that's a serious pain. There's "Undo" (Ctrl-U) before pressing g and "Cancel Pending Actions" (in menu "Actions") that can be used after the first g. Is this what you need? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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