On 2015-12-06 at 18:23, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> writes: > >> I'm not sure I'm happy about such an important change in the >> behavior of the core binary of one package being (able to be) made >> by an update to a completely different package, and I certainly >> wouldn't have been happy to discover it after the fact by seeing >> 'apt-get update' do something unexpected - but there's not much I >> can do about it... > > I'm guessing you weren't previously familiar with apt's really nice > hook system? It's much more natural to expect this sort of thing to > be possible if you've run across the hooks before, and if you've not > looked at them, it might be worth your time at some point. You can > do all sorts of pretty awesome stuff. That's one of the ways > etckeeper integrates with apt, for instance. I was aware of the existence of such a system, though only from being aware of apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges, which hook in at a very different stage of the process and work in what looks like a different way; I just didn't know its reach could go anywhere near that far. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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