Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Hi Török, 2009-12-22 08:03 Török Edwin:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.3-3 Severity: wishlist aptitude should have a flag to upgrade all the recommends/suggests of the package, when the package is upgraded. For example to upgrade texlive, I would like to just do this: $ aptitude install --update-all-deps texlive-full And it should update all the installed depends, recommended, and suggested dependencies of the package (if possible). Perhaps this should be the default for metapackages. Currently I have to open synaptic, search for texlive, select each package and click upgrade. Aptitude would only update texlive-full package, and not its dependencies. Yes, the dependencies are not strict, but I would still like to upgrade all packages when I upgrade a metapackage, upgrading only the metapackage doesn't make much sense.
This is already possible (and has been for more than a decade) by using patterns (so marking the bug as +wontfix): http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04.html http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s04s05.html For example, to upgrade the suggested dependencies of "texlive-full" which are already installed (try with additional '-s' if wary of breaking something): $ aptitude upgrade ~i~RSuggests:texlive-full I hope that it's obvious to see how to implement what you want from this example.
Also there should be a flag to install all recommends of an already installed package, similar to --with-recommends but for already installed packages.
$ aptitude install '!~i~RRecommends:texlive-full' (Install the packages recommended by texlive-full which are not already installed -- harmless to omit the '!~i', but generates some errors) Hope that helps. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
