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Re: apt-get --assume-no



On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

>
> I was investigating man apt.conf and thought of something. One of the options
> is assume-yes. I remember looking for an assume-no earlier in the year but
> was unable to find one. That would be much safer for home users who would
> like for, when a question asking if we want to replace a configuration filke
> that has been changed, apt to assume-no and not replace our configuration
> files. I let it replace them once, before I knew better. IT BROKE MY
> SYSTEM!!!!!!!!

Actually, a more proper patch would make an option 'assume', which then be
given a value of yes or no.



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