On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > IIRC apt-get marks packages upgraded with "apt-get install" > automatically as manually installed despite it doesn't allow > parameters to "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" like > aptitude does.
Just for the record: apt-get does mark them manual on install, yes, simply because: If you care enough to install/upgrade the package, you probably don't want it to be considered for autoremove. I think¹ this is sensible for a tool which has low user-interactivity; aptitude on the other hand talks more directly to the user (at least in its g/cui) so the other way is fine as well. I am pretty sure you will find for both choices enough arguments to consider them a bad/good idea, so I doubt changing will gain us anything. (and upgrade/dist-upgrade allow parameters since recently, but as additional hints, not in a "upgrade this package" sense) (¹ not that what I think really matters, its the behavior for ages, so we aren't changing it, even if I would hate the default with all my heart.) The real critic here is that APT/aptitude (and many other tools in that area) "babble" too much and ask for confirmation maybe a bit too often, so that users just skip-reading over the output (regular missing the really important information) and hit enter before they have thought about it. I don't really see how we can change that though, as which information is the important one varies a lot between runs and users. Best regards David Kalnischkies _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
