Re: Bug#40181: apt-get could mention suggests
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> it might be cool if apt-get install, when listing the things it is
> installing/upgrading, could mention "suggested packages not being
> installed"... this is inspired by upgrading xanim, having it reduce
> in functionality because the decoders I happenned to need are now in
> xanim-modules, but that it is [appropriately] only a "suggest"ed
> package. It might even be more appropriate to list "new" suggestions,
> relative to the installed package base, to catch changes like this,
> but I'd have to think about that more, it might not be quite the
> right way to handle it.
Hmm.. If you can think of an explicit set of rules for when to show unmet
suggests and recommends I could implement it.. But it seems to me that
this might be prone to an information overload, blasting the poor user
with lots of things.
Remember that apt-get is not a substitute for a complete GUI, it is a very
simple command line tool (it clocks in at only ~1000 lines of code!)
Jason
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