On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39AM -0600, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > The "expected" workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes > > you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that > > will be made (including ones that were required by your past changes). > > If you like it, you confirm that it's OK and aptitude applies the > > changes. > > Then how do you know what changes cause what? Are you going through > the list and somehow trace back all the dependencies to figure that > out? And when you make another change, you have to start all over > again?
If you select a package in the preview screen, aptitude will show you packages that are related by dependencies. You can also type "i" a few times to see a package that you selected manually which requires each newly installed package (but this isn't perfect in some corner cases). > BTW, how do you tell aptitude to tell you what it would do? I just > started it and couldn't figure that out. I would like to see what it > would do without me making any changes. Press "g" and you get a summary of all the changes you've made. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
