Re: [Synaptic-devel] apt features

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:25:56PM +0200, Andrey Tarassov wrote:
> Hi!
Hi,
 
thanks for your feedback!

> I've looked deeper into apt's features and found certain things that 
> could implemented in synaptic as well. For example, I find it very 
> useful to have a possibility to reinstall packages. I have encountered 
> situations a couple of times when this feature helped me a lot, so I 
> think synaptic users would be interested in it as well.

Right. I added this to my todo list. It's probably not a big
issue. Please don't expect it too soon as we currently working a new
gui layout and so are pretty busy :)
 
> Another issue is that it is possible to integrate information about an 
> update into apt's pkglists. However I did not find any way to extract 
> this information from the client-side (even with apt-* tools). Probably, 
> it will be good to have a possibility to access this information from 
> synaptic.

What information exactly? Changelog information? 

> Best wishes and thanks for a good product,

Thanks :) 

> Andrey
Michael
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