Re: your mail
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> > Yes. Systems that have deliberately unconfigured or otherwise
> > dysfunctional package states cannot use apt. Nobody has presented me
> > with a technique for making APT safe on such systems so they remain
> > unsupported. All others can use APT.
>
> Based on this, I decided to leave both methods in the slink
> uprade instructions. Perhaps this should be reconsidered for future
> releases.
Just to be clear, the above should also have the proviso that it only
applies to people who want their systems to remain in this manner. auto_up
may also be an unnacceptable solution for some of these people, it simply
depends on their individual case.
Jason
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