Re: apt_preferences
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> The reason is simple: there's nothing sensible to do. There's no way
> to know whether the user wanted to install just that version, or enable
> upgrades from the archive it's from; if that version is available from
> multiple archives,
IMHO you should take the approach that the user of aptitude should expect
that such changes are permanent and write it to the preferences file. It
was intended to be written by a GUI to retain exactly these sorts of
things.
> in; however, no-one has yet stepped forward to suggest a solution to the
> issue of "what do I do when there are multiple available releases?"
Show the newest release in the column I'd say.
Jason
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