synaptic asks to just "Download package files only" when not installing/updating

[levu]

when i just want to remove a package, synaptic still asks to "just download packages".
maybe it would be better to hide this option, when its not necessary.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Yes, I can confirm this and it does seem a bit silly. If there isn't anything to install, that checkbox should be hidden as it seems to only applies to new packages.

[Michael Rooney (mrooney)]

Marking as Triaged as it is ready for a developer to look at it!

[Vish (vish)]

The present Karmic cycle for Hundred papercuts is full and this bug would only be scheduled for Karmic +1
Synaptic is being replaced By Appcenter in Karmic+1 , Hence not a papercut.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut
Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[levu (levu)]

What about this bug? Will there be any further update?

[Marcus Haslam (marcus-haslam)]

I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 22 Apr 2011, at 14:03, levu <email address hidden> wrote:

> What about this bug? Will there be any further update?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/413453
>
> Title:
>  synaptic asks to just "Download package files only" when not
>  installing/updating
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Invalid
> Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
>  Triaged
>
> Bug description:
>  when i just want to remove a package, synaptic still asks to "just
> download packages".
>  maybe it would be better to hide this option, when its not necessary.

[Daniel Hartwig (wigs)]

As discussed here <https://code.launchpad.net/~evfool/synaptic/ancientfixes/+merge/93134/comments/290677> this “bug” will not be fixed, as there is no simple way for the program and user to agree when to discard this option and when to keep it. Either it is remember for _any_ action (current behaviour), or discarded always.