Control: tags -1 - moreinfo + pending
Hi all, 2015-09-25 20:01 To Axel Beckert:
- "Cancel pending actions" is not strongly attached to "keep", so since people are annoyed about the side-effects, we could easily change the behaviour, command description and the documentation... and hope for the best. If there are complaints, we can provide "Cancel pending actions, including holds", or "Unhold all packages currently on hold".
I am going to fix this by making "Cancel pending actions" to reload the cache, which is roughly equivalent to restart the program without exiting and starting again (effectively forgetting all what was marked in this session). I think that this is more consistent with "Cancel pending actions" as described by the original report and other users, than the previous behaviour -- removing all holds and auto-installed flags of all packages in the system, even if they had not been changed in this session. Most of the other discussion in the report deals with changing "keep" and "keep-all" behaviours to adhere to what we want to achieve with this menu action, so instead, by detaching both, we don't have to consider how fixing this problem affects other use cases. Conversely, there are many other open bug reports (how "keep" or other actions reset "hold" status and "auto" flags) which overlap with the matters discussed in this report, so I think that it's more appropriate to consider each use case and fix separately and its effects in turn, rather than globally. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
