[Merge] lp:~evfool/synaptic/ancientfixes into lp:synaptic

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 17 November 2012 21:27, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package management is rather complex, it is not likely that there is
> a good metric to decide when to unset this selection and when not—in a
> way that a user can accurately anticipate.

For what its worth, we have had one or two similar reports against
aptitude, but what can you be expected to do when a user types:

$ aptitude install --download-only some-package

and some-package is already downloaded?  Ignore --download-only?

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