Re: APT [was Re: Is this really the right thing to do?]

["Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

--On Thu, Dec 3, 1998 11:53 am +1100 "Craig Sanders" <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:


> 
> in short, i'm in favour of tools which summarise package status
> information and provide various 'views' of the info, with the aim of
> enabling a system admin to make informed and intelligent decisions.
> 
> i'm opposed to the notion of automating the decision.

So, presumably, you are not in favour of the current apt-get which
automatically gets depended packages (and, under some circumstances will
remove packages too).

Jules

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