[Aptitude-devel] Bug#793307: Bug#793307: aptitude: Add a confirmation for changing 'automatic' flag

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

artem_banschikov wrote:
> I occasionally pressed 'm' button when 'All installed packages' item was
> choosen, so all my packages were marked as manually installed. 'm' is placed
> right under 'j' which is often used for navigation, so occasional
> presses on it is a real problem for me.

There's an undo function in aptitude, bound to Ctrl-U. This easily
reverts such mistakes (if they're noticed quickly enough).

> Please, add some kind of confirmation for changing package
> 'automatic' flag with 'm' button.

I'd consider that rather annoying, but I can understand the
motivation.

If we do so, we should

a) make it optional (on by default is fine for me),
b) only ask for confirmation if it would catch more than one package
   (i.e. for whole branches)
c) only for "m", not for "M" (as the subject may suggest)

> Also, I saw some bugs when aptitude forgets 'automatic' flag for
> some packages and I thought some of them may be inspited by
> occasional 'm' press.

Possibly. But there are definitely cases where this happens without
mistyping key-press commands.

		Regards, Axel
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