Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages
On 27 March 2012 05:51, William r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Thanks a lot for your answer. The given command gives 1225 packages : $ aptitude search '~i!~M' In my case, such a list is clearly not manageable! The ubuntu command : aptitude search '~i!~M(!~tubuntu-desktop!~tminimal!~tstandard!~tprint-server)(!~n^grub$!~n^linux-!~n^aspell$!~n^openoffice.org-l10n-common$((!~n-fr$!~n-fr-)|~ndoc-fr$))' gives 103 packages, which starts to become manageable! So, clearly, having a command such as this one, given in the man page, that would give the 103 packages, would be very interesting : $ aptitude search ~user But I can fully understand that aptitude is not able to do it. Indeed, that would require a definition of what is from the distribution and what is not, which does not seam easy. The old style tasks have been phased out and replaced by meta-packages with names beginning with task-. As a result of this it is now possible to have the dependencies of a task marked as automatically installed and thus most of the clutter in your preferred search (!~tubuntu-desktop etc.) will no longer be needed. However, if you had upgraded from an older system it is likely you will have to select each task that is installed and mark the dependencies before this is useful. I don't believe it will be worth anyone's effort to attempt to define a distribution/non-distribution distinction between packages. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages
On 27 March 2012 16:07, Daniel Hartwig mand...@gmail.com wrote: The old style tasks have been phased out and replaced by meta-packages with names beginning with task-. As a result of this it is now possible to have the dependencies of a task marked as automatically installed and thus most of the clutter in your preferred search (!~tubuntu-desktop etc.) will no longer be needed. However, if you had upgraded from an older system it is likely you will have to select each task that is installed and mark the dependencies before this is useful. I don't believe it will be worth anyone's effort to attempt to define a distribution/non-distribution distinction between packages. Otherwise you can use user-tags to track the packages you are interested in yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#665822: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#665822: introduce user own marker on installed packages
On 26 March 2012 20:38, r...@libertysurf.fr wrote: Package: aptitude Version:0.6.3-3.2 Hello, I think aptitude lacks a feature : being able to tell the user what he has installed already (in order to let him do clean up). I think of a feature such as in windows (control panel / add or remove programs), were you can identify easily what you have installed. You can get very similar to Windows add-remove-programs with just '~i!~M'. Better, in fact, because the list will not contain programs which are simply dependencies of others (i.e. the junk searchbars and such that come with many Windows software). the automatic/installed/not installed categories do not tell if a package was there because it was a choice of the distribution, or if it is there because the user installed it. To do that, Ubuntu.fr provides a nice command on http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/aptitude, though it could be updated : aptitude search '~i!~M(!~tubuntu-desktop!~tminimal!~tstandard!~tprint-server)(!~n^grub$!~n^linux-!~n^aspell$!~n^openoffice.org-l10n-common$((!~n-fr$!~n-fr-)|~ndoc-fr$))' If you ignore everything but the first part it is more memorable: $ aptitude search '~i!~M' but will show you some distribution packages also. However, I think you will find that is still a much more manageable list and can also be used interactively, by pressing L and entering the same search pattern. APT and aptitude already make a good effort to keep track of which packages the user has specifically chosen to install. It is difficult to mark the distribution packages as otherwise, so these are mostly counted as manually installed. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
