[Bug 817617] Re: Repositories not auto enabling. Should be an option

[David Kalnischkies]

And how should APT be able to tell a user which repository is missing
without knowing the repository and its content? No sane implementation
of a crystal ball exist so far.

The wine repository in this case should announce which external
repository-dependencies it has so a user can add those, too, but APT can
never implement logic to detect which repository is missing if a package
can't be installed. Or can you imagine just one single agnostic way to
do this?

Sure, APT could print always something like "yeah, you don't have
universe in the source, might be it helps if you had.", but this is
neither distro-agnostic nor does this support the decision to split
universe apart from main in the first place.

btw: I think there is higher-level GUI available to add this repository
- and many others for that matter.

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       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Repositories not auto enabling. Should be an option

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Wine needs some packages from multiverse and universe repo. If these are not enabled then apt-get will report an issue. If the command can recognise these are required then automatically offer to enable the repo then this can be avoided. Please see:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/166195

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jul 28 17:17:13 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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