Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:31:35PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 03 January 2014 14:16:34 Brian wrote:
> > The '-s' can be omitted if more than one package is to installed.
>
> i.e., if you are requesting more than one package, it will tell you
> what it is going to install before doing it anyway. You need the -s
> for one package, because if you have only asked for one package it
> otherwise just goes right ahead and installs it.
I've always looked on it as; if you didn't ask for a particular
package to be installed then it won't do it without your permission.
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