Bug#956330: apt: Provide option to prompt on apt install foo whether foo should be marked manually installed

[Алексей Шилин <shilin.aleksej@gmail.com>]

В Чт, 09/04/2020 в 20:23 -0400, annadane пишет:
> 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

Wouldn't you end up with that package being marked as manually
installed if it really wasn't installed and apt downloaded and
installed it as you expected it to? Either way you have the very same
state in the end. So you're basically saying "I wanted apt to install a
package and mark it as manually installed, but because it already was
installed I now don't want it to be marked as manually installed". :)