[Aptitude-devel] Bug#576319: Bug#576319: aptitude: "Cancel pending actions" erase "h - hold" state

[Ralf Jung]

Hi,

> I am going to fix this by making "Cancel pending actions" to reload the
> cache, which is roughly equivalent to restart the program without
> exiting and starting again (effectively forgetting all what was marked
> in this session).
> 
> I think that this is more consistent with "Cancel pending actions" as
> described by the original report and other users, than the previous
> behaviour -- removing all holds and auto-installed flags of all packages
> in the system, even if they had not been changed in this session.

Does this mean that if there is an action stored in the cache, that
action would not be canceled? I think that would also be confusing. It
happens from time to time that the cache contains operations where I
have absolutely no idea where they come from - I just start aptitude,
and suddenly it wants to (un)install stuff. In that case, I just "Cancel
pending actions" to make sure that nothing actually happens.

Kind regards,
Ralf