Re: Bug#317430: ITP: apt-history -- logs the changes when installing

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

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* Nico Golde [Sat, Jul 09 2005, 01:12:24PM]:

> > Coreutils is required. Why is the ability to do something without it an
> > advantage?
> 
> You can do almost every thing with with tools like, grep,
> sed, awk etc. but in my opinion this should be so easy as
> possible to everyone. Not everybody is familiar with grep
> etc. but apt-history show should be no problem.

a) a system administrator has to be familiar with grep (don't throw in
FUD like "awk, etc.", those are tools for people that like them).
Learning grep's usage for this purpose is not much more complicated than
learning apt-history's usage.
b) it is a problem for _everyone_ if you create a _new_ package, which
eats up disk space with its meta data and kills apt's performance for no
good reason

Regards,
Eduard.

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