Scott Ferguson wrote: > 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? No, please, no. Think of the kittens. > 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 Thankfully I have zero of those. My sources.list.d is empty of any files other than mine. > 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 I haven't looked at Google Earth. Thanks for the heads up about it. > 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. I was burned by it. Which is how I discovered that feature had entered Debian. Once burned I am now opposed to it. One of those features that could have been used for good but was abused and used for evil. > > 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. That increases the interative noise. It is already very noisy. I spend a lot of time playing wack-a-mole trying to keep it automated. > 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), They would really be unhappy on Tuesday with an MS system and the large patches there. > it also made a mess of our test before deploy updates policy. From > memory it was something like updatenotifierkde, part of a meta > package. $ apt-cache search update notifier update-notifier-kde - Update notifier for the KDE Plasma Desktop update-notifier-common - Files shared between update-notifier and adept update-notifier - Daemon which notifies about package updates I don't have any of those installed. Bob
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