Re: Upgrading to Iceweasel 10 in Squeeze
On 04/02/12 12:43, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Scott Ferguson wrote:
>> It would be preferable is the installer notified the admin when
>> creating a snippet,
>
> Hmm... I am not sure how that would work.
?
Add a dialog question to the installation routine.
Package X is about to create an entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d - do
you want to proceed? Y/N/huh?
> And even then I just think it is a bad idea. Most of the time if you
> were able to install the package then most likely you already added
> the repository to a sources.list file so the package one because a
> second one.
Most of the time is not all of the time :-)
I can think of several "install by wget $something && dpkg -i" cases
where an entry is added to /etc/apt/sources.list.d
Opera is just one. It'll happily install a duplicate entry into
/etc/apt/sources.list if you already have one. But that's not from the
debian repository so that's different from the case of googleearth-package
To be clear I'm not complaining - I know to check
/etc/apt/sources.list.d and convert *.list to *.save if not required.
Some people will get caught out though.
> And if you didn't install a sources.list line then it is probably
> because you didn't want to.
In which case I definitely don't want a snippet installed....
>
> I would be perfectly okay if there were an additional meta-package
> that included dependencies and whose sole purpose was to set up a
> sources.list line. Then I would avoid the installation of that
> package and say, well, it is probably useful for some poor
> unfortunate soul. But I would blacklist it.
I'd settle for a dialog question.
>
>> especially the truly Evil(tm) autoupdate in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d
>> :-)
>
> Such as? I don't have anything there. What package is it in? Just
> purge it.
That was done as soon as we discovered it in response to complaints
(users with prepaid internet don't like it when they don't know why
their quota has been exceeded), it also made a mess of our test before
deploy updates policy. From memory it was something like
updatenotifierkde, part of a meta package.
>
> Bob
Kind regards
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