Control: tags -1 + pending - newcomer
2012-09-15 10:59 Daniel Hartwig:
Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote:
at least print an error message telling the user why.
and later continues:
the same happens from the command line
$ aptitude install virtualpackage
will do nothing
Something should be done in both cases. Current apt-get behaviour is to
install the sole providing package, if there is one, otherwise to
display an error about the choice being ambiguous or not available.
If there is a single provider we should install that.
This already happened in the command line for a few years, at least
since 2008 I think. The last message ("Unable to apply some actions,
aborting") is from my (still unreleased) version, I think, but getting
there and this is not relevant for this report.
# aptitude -s install a52dec
Note: selecting "liba52-0.7.4-dev" instead of the virtual package "a52dec"
The following NEW packages will be installed:
liba52-0.7.4-dev
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/51.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 156 kB will be used.
Would download/install/remove packages.
# aptitude -s install java-compiler
"java-compiler" is a virtual package provided by:
openjdk-9-jdk openjdk-6-jdk gcj-6-jdk openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-7-jdk gcj-jdk
gcj-5-jdk gcj-4.9-jdk gcj-4.8-jdk
You must choose one to install.
Unable to apply some actions, aborting
I changed the behaviour in the curses interface to also behave like
this, so setting as +pending.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
