Bug#55468: gnome-apt: Please expose apt.conf options in preferences

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Package: gnome-apt
Version: 0.3.6
Severity: wishlist

Greetings,

First, thank you for making an outstanding front-end to an amazing
tool!  I just started using gnome-apt in the course of introducing Linux
(and Debian) to a newbie, and you have done a really nice job with it.

In order to make the full power of apt available to GUI users, it would
be nice to be able to use the preferences dialog to set apt.conf
configuration options.  This would of course require parsing any
existing apt.conf file, and preferences selected here would be saved in
apt.conf and thus apply to all other front ends- which the user should
probably be warned about.  I think this would add significantly to the
usability of this extremely powerful tool.

Also, a nitpick: it would be nice if doing an update didn't un-select
all of my new packages to install...

Thanks very much,

-Adam P.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux ebedmelech 2.2.13 #1 Sun Oct 31 07:51:43 EST 1999
ppc unknown

Versions of the packages gnome-apt depends on:
ii  apt            0.3.15         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  gdk-imlib1     1.9.8-2        Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for
use with
ii  libart2        1.0.54-1       The Gnome canvas widget
ii  libaudiofile0  0.1.9-0.1      The Audiofile Library
ii  libc6          2.1.2-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
timezone
ii  libesd0        0.2.16-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
libraries
ii  libglib1.2     1.2.6-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome32     1.0.54-1       The Gnome libraries
ii  libgnomesuppor 1.0.54-1       The Gnome libraries (Support
libraries)
ii  libgnomeui32   1.0.54-1       The Gnome libraries (User Interface)
ii  libgtk1.2      1.2.6-1        The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-3       The GNU stdc++ library
ii  libzvt2        1.0.54-1       The Gnome zvt (zterm) widget
ii  xlib6g         3.3.5-1.1      shared libraries required by X clients

ii  apt            0.3.15         Advanced front-end for dpkg
        ^^^ (Provides virtual package libapt-pkg2.6)
ii  zlib1g         1.1.3-5        compression library - runtime
        ^^^ (Provides virtual package libz1)