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Re: potato -> woody upgrade not smooth...



Em Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:52:05 +0200 (CEST)
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> escreveu:

> Or better yet, --install-suggests and --ignore-recommends; recommendations
> should be "stronger" than suggestions, remember...
> 
> Of course, when removing a package that is recommended by another package,
> apt-get should just ignore that fact, since it doesn't depend on it.
uh, I agree completely...

> > then asking a Y/N prompt for each package...
> 
> Exactly how would you see that happen in a cronjob?
> 
> It's still a command-line tool, and automatization under unices has always
> been done using command-line tools. I don't think this would be a good
> idea.
well, I said that could be configurable, so in a cronjob you would
just pass -y and all packages would be installed or such...

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