Bug#184618: marked as done (dselect: configuration of "Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n]")
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From: J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG>
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Subject: dselect: configuration of "Do you want to erase any previously
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Package: dselect
Version: 1.10.9
Severity: wishlist
It should be possible to change the default behavior of
"Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n]"
from Y to N, with a command line switch or preferably in a
configuration file.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: Sid
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wolverine.wsl.COM 2.4.20 #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 23:00:41 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dselect depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-16 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:40:40 -0400
From: Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: dselect: configuration of "Do you want to erase any previously downloaded .deb files? [Y/n]"
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While there is no configuration option to set the default, you can easily
disable the prompt altogether (and cause archives not to be deleted) and run
apt-get clean manually. I don't think there is really a need for yet
another configuration option only to set the default, when you can already
choose between always, prompt, auto, pre-auto and never, which should cover
pretty much everyone's preferences.
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