>>>>> "DB" == Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> writes:

DB> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:25:47AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org was heard to 
say:
>> I have determined that if there is nothing left to do,
>> then full-upgrade will require its piece of meat, else it's
>> game over "No more solutions available".

DB>   aptitude specifically forbids the resolver from returning a solution
DB> that reverts all the user's actions, because (IIRC) there were some
DB> early complaints that people accidentally cancelled everything they
DB> were going to do.  As you noted, this is not ideal.  Some parts of
DB> a better solution have been implemented, but the whole thing hasn't
DB> come together yet: instead of throwing that option away, label it
DB> explicitly as "cancel all your scheduled actions".  Perhaps an even
DB> better option is to let the user see what the preview will look like
DB> when the solution is applied, but I'm not sure how to do that without
DB> cluttering the view too much.

I am little worried that maybe your reply was meant for a different
bug. All I know is that I am just the lowest of users using a command
line (never using the curses part of aptitude) and never have looked
at the source code.



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