Bug 401973

Summary: Propose install available updates before installing applications
Product: [Applications] Discover Reporter: Alexander Mentyu <notuxius>
Component: discoverAssignee: Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: arealperson1234+kde, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.14.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexander Mentyu 2018-12-10 18:23:10 UTC
SUMMARY
In some situations when there are available updates with installing/removing of packages in updates - few apps cannot be installed because of conflicts - propose install available updates first before installing applications
Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2018-12-10 18:25:15 UTC
As example - Krita app wasn't installing recently because of not installed updated packages/deps
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-12-11 18:16:49 UTC
Maybe it should just be smart enough to know this for just the affected apps? Otherwise I can see this being really burdensome and annoying. A lot of people delay updates for long periods of time, but would like to continue being able to install new apps.
Comment 3 Chase Lau 2018-12-12 15:03:18 UTC
When using KDE Neon Dev-unstable there will be updates available several times a day. I could see this quickly becoming burdensome if Discover asked me to update on every install.

A workaround might be to have an option "Don't update, and don't ask again".
Comment 4 Aleix Pol 2018-12-13 02:48:58 UTC
We can't expect Discover to solve every issue. If there's conflicts that apt can't resolve then it's a packaging issue.