Re: identd is missing from netstd_3.07-* !!
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Christian Meder wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 02:29:58PM +0800, Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote:
> > > On Sep 15, Paul Slootman scrawled :
> >
> > > Apparently apt ignores "suggests" packages, while dselect will pop up a
> > > screen with these. I guess apt isn't as cool as it's made out to be.
> > >
> > ahhhhhhh. and that would explain it then. I wonder if it would be possible
> > to get apt to output the suggests, that way when packages are upgraded, things
> > don't suddenly stop working?
>
> Send in a wishlist bug report against apt.
apt-get will likely never do this. It is more of an appropriate task for a
GUI. There are so many unment suggests/recommends on a typical system that
the important ones would just be lost in the noise.
Jason
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