Bug#46044: marked as done (apt shouldn't do anything to any package, if -d is used.)
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From: Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>
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Subject: apt shouldn't do anything to any package, if -d is used.
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Hi,
X is a new package that I want to look at.
Y is an installed package that conflicts with X.
I think "apt-get -d install X" shouldn't warn removing Y, though it's made to
download X that WOULD conflict with Y if X was really installed. Currently apt
yells it's going to REMOVE package Y, though it never removes it, which is
correct of course.
Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux shakti.kos.su 2.2.12 #1 Sat Sep 18 04:19:13 EEST 1999 i686
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bug#46044: apt shouldn't do anything to any package, if -d is used.
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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Tuomas Jormola wrote:
> X is a new package that I want to look at.
> Y is an installed package that conflicts with X.
> I think "apt-get -d install X" shouldn't warn removing Y, though it's made to
> download X that WOULD conflict with Y if X was really installed. Currently apt
> yells it's going to REMOVE package Y, though it never removes it, which is
> correct of course.
Download-only is sort of a 'no act' mode of operation, it goes through
exactly the same motions as it normally would except that it doesn't do
the final install step. Thus it makes sense that it shows the packages
that would need to be removed if that new package is installed.
Put another way, someone else might come along and ask for -d to show
packages to remove so they could evaluate if they want to actually
download it in the first place :>
Jason
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