Frans Pop wrote: > If I read the manpage correctly, this will generate separate apt-get calls > for each package (or pseudo-package) you want installed. > > Isn't going to create a huge overhead of reading the database, checking > status and writing the database? On slower systems that could really hit > installation time. Nope, the command specification allows for things like apt-debconf-progress apt-get install foo bar baz Or even for something like this, which is how tasksel will use it apt-debconf-progress aptitude install '~pstandard' '~t^desktop$' It does also allow separate apt-get calls, which might be useful in base-installer which already makes separate apt calls for several things. The apt progress info includes download estimation statistics, which will be nice when fetching the kernel-image package, for example. -- see shy jo
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