Re: no x version

[Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:53:47PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:43:33PM -0900, Ken Irving <fnkci@uaf.edu> was heard to say:
> > I never have understood the reasons (haven't checked very hard), but it
> > seems like apt-get normally gives an "are you sure?" prompt before doing
> > the action, but sometimes it just goes ahead and does it.  Perhaps the
> > no-prompt behavior is automatic if there aren't many/any dependencies
> > to be hauled in or removed.  I don't have enough time on aptitude to
> > know whether it does the same.
> 
>   apt-get and aptitude, when run from the command-line, will only prompt
> if they have to do something you didn't explicitly ask them to do.

Thank you, that's simple and makes sense.

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Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu