[Bug 927611] Re: Provide a way for frontends to recalculate dependencies

[Matthias Klumpp]

You could manually deselect these packages again... The apropriate way for frontends is just to cancel the previous call and issue a new one without the package in question.
With a more recent PackageKit release, it will update Firefox even when it is running, so you shouldn't have problems with that partivular use-case anymore.

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Title:
  Provide a way for frontends to recalculate dependencies

Status in “packagekit” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Use case: I have updates for Firefox and 30 more packages. I would
  like to install them, but because I have Firefox open, Apper refuses
  to do the update, because Firefox doesn't like to be updated when
  running. Apper could deselect Firefox and continue the update, but
  because of dependencies, Firefox might end being selected again. What
  is needed is an api call for deselecting packages and it's
  dependencies from update list.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: packagekit 0.6.18-1 [modified: var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Feb  6 13:47:38 2012
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: packagekit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-18 (110 days ago)

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