Because I suck, here's the mail I accidentally privately sent. On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: ... snip ... >Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's > preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it > would be an advantage to put this into a more global place, like the > sources.list file. Then, the adjustment of this switch would go to > the package sources selector accordingly. > > What would you think about a global switch, without making a hijack- > package? > Isn't the contents /etc/apt/apt.conf.d already such a global switch? Would you like a low-priority debconf question to more easily toggle this (I have no idea how acceptable such a question would be; I suspect it would be frowned upon)? All the tools have the ability to override global preferences too (--without-recommends for aptitude, for example).
I'm not sure that installing/removing a package to flip a config switch is particularly elegant - it seems like it would be more useful to educate the relevant users about the rich apt configuration options available.
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