Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.11.1-3
Severity: wishlist

Greetings,

Aptitude is a really neat tool; I've just made the switch from dselect
in all of my unstable chroots and plan to never look back.

Unfortunately, I can't recommend aptitude to inexperienced admins, but
would like to suggest a change which would help such people.  One of the
things to like about dselect is that it presents the user/administrator
with a standard list of things to do in a logical order.  In aptitude,
this list might look like:

 - Update the package list (u)
 - Choose from new packages to install, or existing packages to remove
 - Check for Recommends or Suggests dependencies of newly selected packages
 - Download/install new packages, and upgrade those that need it (g)
 - Delete downloaded package files
 - Forget new package list

I'm not sure where this should go to preserve screen real estate, but
the help screen might be a good place to start.

Thanks much for a neat tool!