Ubuntu
synaptic package

display top level packages

Bug #19045 reported by Pavel Rojtberg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Since you are going to include more meta informations to the packages, I think
it would be great to have an option to display all top level packages.
This means packages, which are not a dependancy of some other package, like
gnome or ubuntu-standard. I think this would be a good help for beginners, since
they could safely delete all the packages the dont know what they are for. But
it also offers some deborphan like functionality to more experienced users.

If you like a lot of programming, you could also implement some dependancy tree,
which could look like the new list-view in nautilus

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Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This is actually my wish in bug #17297!

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Wouter Stomp (wouterstomp-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Fixed: add/remove programs provides more or less this functionality now.

Changed in synaptic:
status: New → Fix Released
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Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Less than more I would say, because add/remove doesn't list meta packages, and I can't sort the listed application by installation status. In synaptic I can sort search results with installed packages first, but I can't filter application from libraries.

This bug report was about meta pacakges, my report asked about integration of "deborphan -a" in synaptic.

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