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

artem_banschikov ban.artem.v at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 20:13:23 UTC 2015


On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:54:09 +0100 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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