[Aptitude-devel] Bug#399019: aptitude: now view for manually installed packages

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix


Hi,

2006-11-17 07:11 Tino Keitel:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.4.3-1
>Severity: normal
>
>Hi,
>
>aptitude is intended to replace debfoster. However, it would be a much
>better replacement if aptitude had a view with all packages that are
>manually installed, so that I can see only relevant packages and decide if
>it should be removed from this list or not.

2011-12-19 03:53 Daniel Hartwig:
>severity 399019 wishlist
>thanks
>
>> aptitude is intended to replace debfoster. However, it would be a much
>> better replacement if aptitude had a view with all packages that are
>> manually installed, so that I can see only relevant packages and decide if
>> it should be removed from this list or not.
>
>This can be achieved with the package display limit [1] set to
>"?installed !?automatic". (press `l' in the curses interface)
>
>Refer to the search terms reference [2] for more details.
>
>[1] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch01s01s03.html
>[2] http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html


It could be a good idea to create a new view for this, but since the
alternative is so easy to arrive to (in the main view, typing 'l' and
then '~i!~M' and then OK button), I am not sure that it's worth it.

Also, nobody seconded this request in the ~decade that it has been open.

In the meantime, I am marking as +wontfix at the moment, to try to clean
up the list of issues that are more likely to be implemented in the near
future.


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