Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.4-4
Severity: wishlist
Hi Daniel
Aptitude <foo> output often includes
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
courier-mta esmtp-run exim4 exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-light
libfribidi0 libgpmg1 libsasl2-modules masqmail msmtp-mta nbsmtp
nullmailer postfix psmisc sendmail-bin ssmtp xmail
or
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
courier-mta (R: cron) esmtp-run (R: cron) exim4 (R: cron)
exim4-daemon-heavy (R: cron) exim4-daemon-light (R: cron)
libfribidi0 (R: libnewt0.52) libgpmg1 (R: libncurses5, R: libncursesw5)
libsasl2-modules (R: libsasl2-2) masqmail (R: cron) msmtp-mta (R: cron)
nbsmtp (R: cron) nullmailer (R: cron) postfix (R: cron)
psmisc (R: initscripts, R: procps) sendmail-bin (R: cron) ssmtp (R: cron)
xmail (R: cron)
To me this is difficult to parse. In addition cron wants any
mail-transport-agent, but as presented above it reads as though it wants all
of them. I think it would be easier to parse if it was presented as:
The following RECOMMENDS are currently unfulfilled and will NOT be installed:
cron Recommends: { exim4 || postfix
|| mail-transport-agent [virtual-package] }
libfoobar Recommends: { x11-common || xfree86-common }, mime-support, { feh
|| gimageview || gqview || imagemagick || paul || qiv || xli
|| xloadimage (>= 0.6-1) || zgv }, libbar (>= 0.6-1)
libverylongname-dev Recommends: libfoobar, { foo || bar },
libevenlongerlongname-dev (=0.0.0.1-1),
libdbverylongname-doc
In addition an easy to use option (aptitude --audit-recommends?) to display
all the unfulfilled recommends of installed packages could be useful.
Cheers
Andrew
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