Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.6.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist
The subject is perhaps not quite as descriptive as I'd like, but...
If you look at the info for a package, the first tree section is
Depends. By default it shows all packages the current one depends
on. I often find myself wanting to know what one of the other
packages actually is. If I just scroll down, I don't see anything in
the status bar. I have to open and then highlight one of the actual
versions underneath. For example, sketching out the info view:
i A --\ libxul0d 1.8.1.11-1 1.8.1.11-1
Description: Gecko engine library
<details and fields>
--\ Depends
--- libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0)
If I want to see the short description for libatk in the status line,
I need to:
1) move the cursor to libatk
2) hit return to open
3) move cursor to one of the specific versions underneath
My first observation is that if there's only one version, why not show
the description without opening? It saves 2 steps. If there are
multiple versions, things are more complicated, but if they all have
the same short description, again aptitude could show this.
Please? :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-4 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20071124-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
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