Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers: > 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?
Quite possible. I didn't know about this so far. > it seems like it would be more useful to educate the relevant users > about the rich apt configuration options available. If you have to educate people even after they looked for some feature, there's something wrong. Perhaps the feature set of apt & friends is richer than it is useful? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss