On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: > > 2) Gnome-apt should allow the user to interrupt a download (it may be > necessary/useful for him to do so)... when we press the ?Cancel? button > that should do it, all we have is a smiling face... ;-) >
The latest version has this, check it out. (I'm not sure if there are debs on the server yet, but it's in CVS and the debs are en route.) > 3) Gnome-apt should have an option to ?save present session? or someting > like it... In a slow connection like mine, it takes a VERY long time to > do, for instance, the full upgrade of the XF86 parts (I've just done it! > ;-)... It took me a long time to select which packages I had to upgrade, > and after I started the whole proccess I couldn't abort it in any way, > or I'd lose my selections... > This is planned... I was just thinking that it should definitely be in libapt-pkg though. For the following reasons: - selections should be shared with the terminal frontend - It would be nice to be able to apt-get install --save-only foo bar as one thinks of stuff to install, then apt-get pending right before you go to bed or something Anyway, we will have this sooner or later... personally I think it's about the most annoying thing about gnome-apt. > 4) Also, Gnome-apt should have the option of > downloading-but-not-installing a bunch of packages... just like apt-get > does! > That should be easy - can you file a wishlist bug so I don't forget? Havoc
