Re: Question about wheezy-backports
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the
>>> list from time to time:
>>>
>>> aptitude --forget-new
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation. I stored "~N" in my memory but I've never
>> tried it even though I've often wondered about it... The "forget-new"
>> verb clears up my question(s). By the way, it's "aptitude forget-new",
>> without the hyphens. I'd never noticed this option before!
>
> Oh, thanks for spotting it, I wrote that from memory (shame on me).
You're welcome. This business of hyphenated and unhyphenated options
(or whatever we call the unhyphenated ones) is a pain to remember with
rarely-used or new commands. I used to get certain options wrong
reguilarly when I first started using systemctl...
>> I don't understand why you wouldn't want to restrict the search to
>> wheezy-backports. If the OP only wants to see new wheezy-backports
>> packages, why should his search be cluttered up with new wheezy,
>> wheezy-updates, and wheezy/updates packages?
>
> Personally I don't care, it's up to the OP, but as far as I'm concerned
> the additional filtering is not worth the effort.
Fair enough!
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