On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:19:49PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers > file you can run "apt-get upgrade". The main difference I've seen > between being root and sudoing is that when you're root (This is only > by default, not always) apt-get usually doesn't ask you to give a > [y/n] before installing everything, while running as sudo does. I'm > sure that can be changed but it's really the only main difference > between root and sudo when it comes to apt. I thought that was a function of the size of the install, or maybe when you request one package but more than one will be installed because of dependencies. But I've never actually looked into it. A
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