Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.1-1.1 Severity: wishlist
aptitude should make tasksel tasks as easily trackable as metapackages: - Packages being installed as a result of selection of one or more tasks should be marked as "automatically installed". Furthermore, aptitude should not automatically remove a package if it is marked as "automatically installed", but a task depending on it is still installed. - When packages are added to a task, they should be marked for "automatic installation" and thus be installed. Not having one or more dependencies of a task installed should result in "break"ing the task, calling for aptitude's problem resolution. These changes would also lead to the following desired behaviour: - When packages are removed from a task, they are also being removed from the system given that no other packages or tasks depend on them and that they have not been set to "manually installed". I hope, I have made my intentions clear and laid out the most important implications of this wishlist item. I did hear that some support for this functionality already were in aptitude, but could not find it in the darcs repository. TIA, Kim~* -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.45 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.16-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
