apt feature request...
An option to disallow upgrades. would be very useful.
I.E., apt-get -f install only needs to install 4 packages to fix the system,
but wants to upgrade 20 additional packages. (Emacs20, emacs20-el, screen,
tcl8.0, postgresql, lde, tcsh, bash, xbase, nethack... these are
system-critical files???)
Now, I suppose I could tweak this with dselect, but I'm doing apt-get
because my terminfo is totally trashed, so I purged ALL of ncurses to
get rid of stray files.
It is currently downloading 20+ meg when it only needs a few hundred k.
Were I on a modem, I would have pretty much had to cancel and do it all
manually.
Anyway, the ability to override dselect's update requests would be
extremely useful.
--Dan
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