Hi Harri, I experiance the overall problem of forgetting about automatically installed packages every now and then on several machines and with various versions of aptitude from 0.4.?? up to 0.6.11. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a pattern in aptitude's behaviour. But I suspect a different bug to be related: If I uninstall a package, aptitude sometimes wants to reinstall that package immediatly.
> Maybe its best to forbid making changes in the preview? I do not think so. My use case of the preview is similar to a filtered package view. > The implied changes (esp. new dependencies, if you manually add some > of the recommended packages) are not completely visible in the > preview, anyway. Yes. I think this is unfortunate. My workaround, after making changes is, to close the preview and reopen it. A suggestion: The preview is a preview as long as you do not - change the package selection, - update the package database, - ... If you change anything, the preview should become a normal package view, and accepting the changes should open a new preview. Happily enough, I do not know how hard it is to implement that, but from a user's point of view, this is what should happen. Any comments are welcome. Regards, Matthias
