[Aptitude-devel] Bug#808882: Bug#808882: aptitude: restore reasonable ordering of package dependencies

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey.

The view was the in the curses interface, when you go from the Package
View and select the details view (via Enter/Retur) of a certain
package.
Guess that's what you call "TUI Dependencies view".

I just tried to find (within one session) packages where the order was
different - without success.
So either my observation was simply wrong yesterday or it just changed.

Right now I see that order (AFAICS):
PreDepends
Depends
Conflicts
Breaks
Recommends
Suggests
Enhances
Replaces
(haven't checked for Provides)

IMHO, those who are most likely to be interesting, should be listed
first, which would be IMHO:
Depends
Recommends
Suggests

I have no strong opinion whether Pre-Depends should be before that list
or after.
Since it's already named "pre" and since this is the strongest class of
depending, it should probably be listed first,... but OTOH, pre-
dependencies are usually already fulfilled on most systems, since
they're typically such standard packages like adduser, which are
"simply there".
Therefore they're less interesting in the view, and one could argue to
have it after Suggests.


Conflicts/Breaks are IMHO the least interesting, at least wrt aptitude,
because *if* one of them applies, one anyway gets the red lines in the
UI.


As for your suggested order:
Conflicts
Breaks
Replaces
Provides

I think Provides is "similar" to Enhances, so these two should IMHO go
together...
Enhances I'd consider close to Suggests.
Replaces I'd consider to be "closest" to Conflicts/Breaks
So maybe an overall of:
PreDepends
Depends
Recommends
Suggests
Enhances
Provides
Replaces
Conflicts
Breaks

(whether Conflicts or Breaks is first, I don't have a strong opinion).

Ideally of course, that would be just a default order and people could
configure it ;-)


Thanks,
Chris.
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