use auto-install information to cancel install of automatic dependencies if reason for the install goes away

[dom]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I just noticed this with the synaptic package manager this evening.

I searched for bluefish, and marked for installation.

Then I searched for cssed and marked for installation.

Then again for mlview.

Then I click 'apply' and see what's to be installed.

Now I change my mind, cancel the 'apply' and am back in Synaptics.

I de-selected mlview for installation, and so am just left with bluefish and cssed.

-However-, the dependancies for mlview are still marked for installation. I can see this when I look at the details for the installation at the apply stage. There are lots of lib* and gnome related packages that were required for mlview but not for the others so should no longer be installed imo.

To confirm, I quit synaptics without applying the changes, and restart.

I choose bluefish and cssed for install and when looking at the details none of the lib* or gnome related stuff is there.

I think what is required is that when a package is de-selected for install, all the dependancies should be re-checked.

At least the dependancies for this package should be checked against any other packages to be installed. If they are not required, they should not be installed.

[dom (dara-o-maoilmhichil)]

by the way, I'm using xubuntu dd (6.06).
`uname -a` gives :
"Linux xubuntu-desktop 2.6.15-26-386 #1 PREEMPT Fri Jul 7 19:27:00 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux"

[nanophase (nanophase)]

I guess this is an upstream problem. Not really a bug, but synaptic should be able to handle this situation and deselect the deps as well.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is possible to implement with the new auto-mark code now. Maybe not for edgy, but definitely for edgy+1. Until then the workaround is to use "undo" from the menu.

[dino99 (9d9)]

wow, ten years later, that feature is still missed on the active releases, up to 0.83 in xenial.