On 14 November 2012 18:03, Elmar S. Heeb <el...@heebs.ch> wrote: > BTW, I am fine with either behaviour but I would strongly vote for a > consistent policy between apt and aptitude.
In future versions aptitude will adopt apt-get's behaviour. > However +m is not a supported action (as > opposed to +M). Oh, yes. I suppose that when “+M” was introduced, “+m” would have been equivalent to “+”, but that situation has long since changed. With the new behaviour, “+m” (install and mark manual) would again be the same as “+”. > >> The request to install openssl is not ignored, although it has no >> effect, because aptitude processes that install request *before* it >> decides to remove packages that are no longer required. > > Interestingly, the interactive behaviour is different here from the one > on the command line. If I hit '-' on rsstail and the '+' on openssl it > would keep openssl and mark it as manually installed. Indeed. The interactive processing is different, with auto-removals processed immediately. It is equivalent to: # aptitude remove --schedule-only rsstail # aptitude install --schedule-only openssl # aptitude install For various reasons, the semantics must be different here than when specifying all actions at once. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
