Re: Gnome-apt hmm

[Havoc Pennington <hp@Mcs.Net>]

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice to be able to load and save the current state of the
> > package tree; then you could save the state as a regular user, and re-load
> > it as root.
> 
> I'm not sure if we want that; for a multi-user system that would mean
> any user can change the state to something the administrator is not
> happy with.
> 

I mean explicitly, i.e. you could save state to some filename and
explicitly re-load that filename. Like Import/Export Package List, only
for Apt's particular settings (delete/keep/install, eventually the current
version being considered). This is useful anyway, aside from the suid
thing.

Havoc