On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:45:21AM -0700, Arias Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> Package: aptitude
> Version: 0.4.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> Excellent improvements made to this utility since version 4.0+ release.  
> The only missing feature,
> it seems, would be the capability to display the cause of broken packages 
> listed byexecuting
> aptitude search ~b.  At present, I've found the easiest/speediest way of 
> determining this is by
> doing a:
> ··
> $ apt-get install -f <package>
> ··
> which will usually reveal the root of the problem.  Adding this diagnostic 
> feature to aptitude would
> be a nice time saving enhancement.

  In what way is the information displayed in the lower pane of aptitude
not sufficient?  e.g.,

=========
Some dependencies of pppoeconf are not satisfied:
        * pppoeconf depends on modconf
=========

    Thanks,
  Daniel

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