On 30/05/2017 22:42, Axel Beckert wrote:
So maybe we should be a little bit more verbose with the short
description in the menu or maybe even split "Cancel pending actions"
into two separate menu entries:
* Cancel pending actions of this session
* Cancel all pending actions
or similar.
It will be wonderful to have two entries, because "Cancel all
pending actions" is quite self explanatory, will match the previous
behaviour
I couldn't remember that we changed that, but this change was indeed a
bugfix in 0.7.6 from February 2016:
* [curses] "Cancel pending actions" now reloads the cache (roughly
equivalent to restarting the program), rather than marking all packages
as "keep" plus ruining all auto-installed flags and holds
(Closes: #537735, #576319)
Hi Axel, maybe I misunderstood the part where you talked about splitting
"Cancel pending actions": when you said "Cancel all pending actions",
you meant also from previous sessions, wasn't it? In this case, from a
user point of view, it would almost match the previous behaviour, at
least for the fact that there wasn't a concept of session for that command.
That's what I wanted to say.
However, if it weren't so late in the release cycle, I believe that the
best solution would be the one exposed by Drew Parsons, because I fear
that who will upgrade from 8 to 9 might find this change surprising.
I hope I'm wrong.
Post-Stretch: how about replacing "Cancel pending actions" with "Keep
all" or "Keep all pending", that does exactly what "Keep" does but for
all packages waiting for install/upgrade/remove/purge? And it would do
the same of the corresponding command line option.
Cesare.
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