Bug#956330: apt: Provide option to prompt on apt install foo whether foo should be marked manually installed
Package: apt
Version: 1.8.2
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
I'm just wondering whether for Deb 11 we might provide an option for users to perhaps, be prompted when they apt install foo and foo is already installed, to *ask* whether they intend to mark it manually installed. I find most of the time when I do that, as opposed to apt-mark manual foo, it's because I've made a mistake and forgotten or not noticed I already had something installed, not because I want to set it to manual. apt-mark manual foo might work the same as it always does but as said it would be nice to prompt the user when they apt install a package like this
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (no /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* present) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.118
ii debian-archive-keyring 2019.1
ii gpgv 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.8.2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4+deb10u3
ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-4
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20190110
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.8.11-7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii gnupg 2.2.12-1+deb10u1
ii powermgmt-base 1.34
-- no debconf information
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