[Aptitude-devel] Bug#244434: wishlist

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi both,

2004-04-18 14:22 Martin Michlmayr:
>Basically, my original feature request was this:
>
>  I tried aptitude for the first time.  I only had a CD with main on it,
>  and when I pressed on a section in aptitude it wouldn't actually show
>  me a listing of packages straight away, but showed "main" first.  This
>  makes it really quite tiresome to use.  Since surely 99% of users will
>  only have main, aptitude should cope with this and not show "main" if
>  there is only main to choose from.
>
>I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have section -> package in the
>case when only one suite is available, and section -> suite -> package
>otherwise... (from a consistency POV).  OTOH, I foud it was tedious
>to choose a section, and then to always have to choose "main" before
>seeing the packages.

2004-06-27 16:22 Michelle Konzack:
>Am 2004-06-27 15:36:59, schrieb Martin Michlmayr:
>>What did you think of this suggestion?
>
>Hello Martin,
>
>because I use ONLY "main", it will be a nice idea.
>
>I create "lite" Debian-CD's which mean, not 7 but 2 (for WOODY,
>Packages used by Enterprises on Desktops and Servers) and I will
>probably profit from this Feature.


This can be changed with the option about default grouping ('G' in
curses, in preferences, or saving it to the config file).

  http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s05s01.html



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