On 27 Mar 1999, Greg Stark wrote: > I'm curious to know how this behaves in APT v3. (I can't install it because I > depend on software that won't run on libc 6.1).
Fortunately v3 has not been linked to libc 6.1 and should not be for as long as is possible. > Is there indeed an option to have it display the list of packages that will be > upgraded? -u or the APT::Get::Show-Upgraded config directive > It seems to me that the most sensible thing to do is to have a configurable > maximum number of packages to list for any of the groups. If there are fewer > than that maximum then just display the count of packages, otherwise provide > the list. The other lists are quite important, it is not acceptable to hide them under any circumstances because they can indicate that something unexpected might happen, upgrading has a much lower chance of breaking something. > I still claim describing what *isn't* happening rather than what *is* > happening is pretty strange. There must be at least as many people who default > to not upgrading packages as there are who default to upgrading everything > without paying attention to what's being upgraded. Well then those people will not be using the dist-upgrade and upgrade commands :> Dselect is a special case, presumably you have already examined your choices through the dselect UI in that instance. Jason
