Re: Why 2 inconsistent package managers frontents?

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:

> i find it useful to be able to use the '-u' argument to
> apt-get, so i can see *exactly* which packages are going to be
> installed/upgraded/removed before i type Y and hit enter.

Throw 

Dselect::Options "-u";

in /etc/apt/apt.conf. From the man page:

       Options
              The  contents  of  this  variable is passed to apt-
              get(8) as command line options when it is  run  for
              the install phase.

Or maybe you could use

Apt::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";

And then you can turn it off using a command line option like -u- or maybe
--no-u or possibly --disable-show-upgraded.

Yes, there are far too many settable settings in APT ..

Jason