Re: Anyone Care to Critique my Apt Preferences? (was Re: apt-cacher as package rollback buffer)
On Saturday 20 February 2010 11:24:01 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,20.Feb.10, 18:41:35, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > FYI:
> > The upcoming apt_preferences(5) manpage (e.g.: apt_0.7.26~exp2_i386.deb)
> > states:
> >
> > Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system
> > administrator but they can become also their biggest nightmare if used
> > without care! APT will not questioning the preferences so wrong settings
> > will therefore lead to uninstallable packages or wrong decisions while
> > upgrading packages. Even more problems will arise if multiply
> > distribution releases are mixed without a good understanding of the
> > following paragraphs. You have been warned.
> >
> > (Hmmm... s/multiply/multiple/ .. time to make another bug report.)
>
> And either:
>
> s/will not questioning/will not question/ or
> s/will not questioning/will not be questioning/
>
> I hope a native speaker will point to the better one (second?).
The first is not only the better one, but in this context the only correct
one.
Lisi
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