Enable auto-install of packages in recommends field by default, like in aptitude
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
synaptic (Baltix) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
synaptic (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Synaptic must automatically install packages, listed in Recommends field on install *and* upgrades in the default configuration, like aptitude.
Currently setting "Consider recommended packages as dependancies" is not enabled as default in synaptic, because of this synaptic does make Recommends field useless, since the users can't look at the dependencies of every depended package manually and see which recommendations may be missing...
It would be nice to have is an improved "Mark additional required changes window, coming up saying:
- "those dependes must be installed" (Depends)
- "those dependencies should be install" (Recommends) with a toggle-box, on by default
- "those can be installed" (Suggests) with a toggle box, off by default
What we have right now is just the window coming up with no selection feature for the user that marks the recommends just like depends. The user can't unmark (some) of them, etc. :(
There is very user-friendly implementation of installation recommended and suggested packages in stormpkg and deity package managers (which were orphaned for few years):
when user pressed "Install" button and "mark additional changes" dialog with list of packages (to be marked for installation) is displayed in stormpkg, this list contains not only depends, but also recommends and suggests and there is the ability to mark/unmark wanted ones. "Marked changes" list has 2 additional columns - one with checkbox and second with dependency type (depend, recommend or suggest).
description: | updated |
Changed in synaptic: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-app-install (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Incomplete |
Changed in synaptic (Baltix): | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → New |
Changed in synaptic (Debian): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
gnopernicus Recommends gnome-mag, which means that it should be installed by
default when gnopernicus is installed, but it may be removed (because
gnopernicus is still useful without it).
Theoretically, it is a bug in synaptic that it does not install Recommends by
default, but that is not a simple thing