[Aptitude-devel] Bug#204614: mutt-like tag-foo would be VERY nice

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> [2015-09-05 13:57 +0200]:
> I realise that this is a bit different than how one will sometimes
> tag and apply actions to messages in mutt, because for example
> another use of the tag feature like in mutt would also allow one
> to just go down the list of all upgradable packages without
> a pre-determined set of packages in mind to act upon, tag some
> that one deems safe/interesting to upgrade, then apply 'Install'
> at the end, and no delay would happen at every package, only at
> the end.
> 
> But I think that the way that I explained addresses quite well the
> use-case of the original request at least, maybe less so for the
> second request, but perhaps this workaround is enough.

It's not for my use-case, but thanks for the nice walkthrough.

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