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Bug#473461: apt-get should also have a --no-triggers option



Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:10:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> When you're implementing this, please add a --no-triggers option (or
>> something like that) to apt. This will be useful for things like d-i
>> that call apt multiple times. Then triggers can be skipped during the
>> multiple apt runs, and run once at the end.
>
> The attached patch should implement supression of triggers with -o
> DPkg::NoTriggers=true. It also adds --no-triggers to all but the
> latest dpkg run as outlined in the triggers.txt dpkg documentation.
>
> I'm a bit nervos adding it to the debian-sid apt branch right now, I
> would like to do some more testing first to see if it does not
> break. Feedback is very welcome of course.

Michael,

Let's upload it to experimental with the other things not suitable to
sid and when current apt migrates we decide to push it or not.

What do you think?

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