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

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montezelo at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 18:54:09 UTC 2015


2015-07-22 20:01 artem_banschikov:
>On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 19:24:07 +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>> If we do so, we should
>>
>> a) make it optional (on by default is fine for me),
>Completely agree.
>> b) only ask for confirmation if it would catch more than one package
>>    (i.e. for whole branches)
>I thought about three options: ask for one package, ask for multiple
>packages, not ask at all. There is file deletion dialog in Ranger
>file-manager made in this way.
>> c) only for "m", not for "M" (as the subject may suggest)
>Confirmation for "M" may be added for consistency.
>
>Anyway I'll be glad if you make exactly as you said as it will entirely solve
>my problem.
>
>Best regards, Artyom.


What about Undo (Control-U), as Axel suggested in the previous e-mail?

IMO it is a more general solution, and already implemented, so it should be
favoured rather than adding these new options (unless it does not work).


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>



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