On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mark W. Eichin wrote: > it might be cool if apt-get install, when listing the things it is > installing/upgrading, could mention "suggested packages not being > installed"... this is inspired by upgrading xanim, having it reduce > in functionality because the decoders I happenned to need are now in > xanim-modules, but that it is [appropriately] only a "suggest"ed > package. It might even be more appropriate to list "new" suggestions, > relative to the installed package base, to catch changes like this, > but I'd have to think about that more, it might not be quite the > right way to handle it.
Hmm.. If you can think of an explicit set of rules for when to show unmet suggests and recommends I could implement it.. But it seems to me that this might be prone to an information overload, blasting the poor user with lots of things. Remember that apt-get is not a substitute for a complete GUI, it is a very simple command line tool (it clocks in at only ~1000 lines of code!) Jason
