Bug#680330: apt: Should more prominently show when installing a non-free package
Control: forcemerge -1 274219
Control: severity -1 wishlist
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:53:55PM -0300, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.6
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello,
>
> For instance:
>
> $ apt-cache search -i speech | grep -i french
> cicero - French and English Text-To-Speech for MBROLA
>
> Great! Let's install it
>
> $ sudo apt-get install cicero
> ...
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> cicero mbrola-fr4
> ...
> Get:1 http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable/non-free mbrola-fr4 all 0.0.19990521-2 [5621 kB]
> Get:2 http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib cicero all 0.7.2-2 [94.4 kB]
>
> Oops! This is non-free stuff, I might actually reconsider! But almost no
> time to ^C that.
>
> Keeping the non-free source is useful to get upgrades of the non-free
> stuff, but brings results in apt-cache which are not flagged as being
> non-free.
>
> I would say that apt-get install should warn about installation of new
> non-free packages, for instance:
>
> "
> The following packages:
>
> mbrola-fr4
>
> come from the non-free section. Are you sure you want to install them?
> (y/N)
> "
>
> in order to avoid by default any unexpected installation of a
> new non-free package, even with the non-free section enabled in
> sources.list.
>
> Call me a zealot, but that story actually happened to me and I was not
> happy about it.
>
I'm merging a similar bug into this. Not sure if we ever get around
to it, maybe if we have some sort of pattern matching, so people can
define all sorts of patterns APT should warn about in their config
files.
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