Re: Bug#131623 acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#131623: apt: apt should include a sane defaulte /etc/apt/preferences for clueless users)
On 31 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Similarly, it will not ship with the APT::Default-Release option set to
> > something other than the empty string, as there is no sane default except
> > for that.
>
> Oddly, however, if a user just installs their system, they get an
> /etc/apt/sources.list file with the right thing in it.
You might want to note that APT doesn't work at all without that file, so
it does make a *little* sense to include a reasonable starting
point.
Conventional wisdom since APT has been created is that if you add
unstable/frozen/whatever to your sources.list you will magically be able
to upgrade to unstable/frozen/whatever.
I'm not going to invalidate that concept by jamming something in the
preferences file or into apt.conf, especially if the reason is "users
can't read docs" :P
Jason
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