-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: wishlist
It would be very nice if "hold" and "keep" could be extended to work on uninstalled packages, too. Background of the story: I have to deal a lot with container systems (lxc, chroot, etc). They don't have any real or virtual hardware. Unfortunately there are tons of packages that make no sense if the hardware is missing (apps checking the battery status, tools to configure the hardware clock, boot loaders, pci and usb utilities, the kernel, firmware files, etc.). Some of them fail at run time on the container systems (I could live with that) or at install time. Esp. painful is, when these packages sneak in due to some dependency (Depends or Recommends). If I could tell aptitude to keep packages uninstalled, then this would make managing container systems a lot easier. I could create a blacklist of packages to avoid, and yet keep the flag for "install recommended packages automatically" on. Regards Harri -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGFKt0ACgkQUTlbRTxpHjfEYQCeKIy/bbBj0NNkrieEnZYJPxDX MfkAnjo8szhaGdY1L9KvDb3AIzzOaIwS =lPqi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
