On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 21:28 -0700, Dana Bourgeois wrote: > I recently installed 2.3.4. Very nice output. I like the detailed > information it supplies. One nice thing to add would be more control at > the prompt which is currently only for acceptance/rejection of the > package list. On rare occasions I have this long list of which I don't > want one or two packages to update. > > I suppose the problem is dependencies. I can't be allowed to just use a > regular expression. But the dependencies are known at this point so > what I am really asking is not a regular expression but a chance to trim > the dependency list at legal points. One way to show trim points would > be to have a flag colmun. This isn't going to happen in the text user interface. If you want to de-select a few actions in the transaction set before running it, then recalculate the set I think you'd be best off looking into doing that in a gui. A text interface would just be messy for such a thing, not to mention a lot of code. -sv
