d-l and quieting $APT

[tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com (Tzafrir Cohen)]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:35:39AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Is there any way to make apt/aptitude quiet?  d-l does lots of
> [de]installations and apt/dpkg accounts for almost all of the
> output remaining after setting LH_QUIET=enabled.
> 
> An alternative is to minimize the number of calls to $apt, which is
> also good for performance.  I mean that a single apt call should
> install all the packages in the chroot and probably never remove them.
> Any reason to not do this?

Multiple calls give a different resolution of dependencies. Generally
will get more packages.

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