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Re: telling apt-get not to remove potentially useful packages?



On 2013-06-02 20:10:43 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> You may get a look at the changelog/News before installing by using
> apt-listchanges package configured to show both news and changelog
> and using it in a pager, which allows to type Ctrl-c and abort the
> upgrade process.

But the whole packages need to be downloaded. "apt-get changelog"
seems a better solution. However it doesn't show the NEWS file
(I don't think this is necessary for my purpose, though).

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