Comment 7 for bug 75332

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:53:24PM -0400, Faheem Mitha <email address hidden> was heard to say:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> > hm, it seems that this is broken for when you use the command-line; the
> > interactive UI picks it up just fine. Why this should be, I don't know;
> > it's probably a side effect of the way the command-line initializes the
> > backend (it doesn't select as many things automatically, so that things like
> > single-package installs work)
>
> Unfortunately, I (and lots of other people I imagine) like to use the
> command line. Should I file this as a separate bug (or not)? Thanks for
> the clarification.

  Go ahead and file another bug, with a heading like
"aptitude loses dselect state in command-line mode". (you can probably
find a better title)

  It's a bug, but it's entirely different from what Joey was talking
about, it's probably easier to fix, and I'm more interested in fixing it.

  Daniel

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