Comment 8 for bug 1988819
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| Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote Re: When apt keeps back packages due to phased updates, it should say so | #8 |
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An alternative, proposed by user avih on IRC, is to not report any of these packages to the user at all:
<avih> however, these phased updates are quite a big list which adds a lot of noise to my regular dist-upgrade, and it interferes with me reviewing what's about to get updated
<avih> the kept back list is quite bigger than the list of things to update...
<avih> arraybolt3: if this is indeed the standard order of things, why am i being shown at all what it's NOT going to install for reasons not related to errors or conflicts?
I can see a lot of appeal to not telling the user information -- from their perspective, the packages don't actually exist yet.
Maybe it'll cause confusion if of two machines sitting right next to each other, one can see the updates and the other cannot. That's not ideal.
But holding information back from the user doesn't require new strings, and casual users with one machine might never notice.
It's just fun to see an alternative idea that's 180 degrees different from my initial thought. :)