add hook for auto-install (closes: #470035)

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/depcache.h b/apt-pkg/depcache.h
index 2d33e21d7..e6110ea19 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/depcache.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/depcache.h
@@ -396,6 +396,19 @@ class pkgDepCache : protected pkgCache::Namespace
    void MarkInstall(PkgIterator const &Pkg,bool AutoInst = true,
 		    unsigned long Depth = 0, bool FromUser = true,
 		    bool ForceImportantDeps = false);
+
+   /** \return \b true if it's OK for MarkInstall to recursively
+    *  install the given package automatically.
+    *
+    *  \param Pkg  the package that MarkInstall wants to install.
+    *
+    *  \param Depth  output depth used for the debugging messages
+    *
+    *  The default implementation unconditionally returns \b true.
+    */
+   virtual bool IsAutoInstallOk(const PkgIterator &Pkg,
+				unsigned long Depth = 0);
+
    void SetReInstall(PkgIterator const &Pkg,bool To);
    void SetCandidateVersion(VerIterator TargetVer);