Simulate requires an authentication before

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

The transaction should require authentication if the Run method was called. This way the user could simulate a transaction and get e.g. the download size or dependencies before haing to authenticate for the action. This would allow to provide better dialogs before authentication. Furthermore s-c could show the download/dependencies in the package description.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

This has now landed in the trunk branch.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Sebastian, I'm not sure what you're suggesting USC should change here. Are you saying that the download size we report is wrong, because it doesn't count the download size for uninstalled dependencies?

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Previously aptdaemon supported a feature called future cache. It allowed you to show the changes of a new action after all queued transactions would have been applied. So s-c could have used the size/download properties from aptdaemon instead of calculating them itself. So I close the bug for s-c.