Package: apt Version: 0.3.16 Severity: normal Can you put back the example config file that contained most of the options? Having such a file is most helpful, especially when one agree to the claim that the man pages are terse and not easy to follow. The detailed example file helps a lot when one needs to put only one option at the command line from time to time, for example the option to put the downloaded files at another dir.
I guess that one motivation to remove the detailed file was that users tend to use it as their config file in spite the message that said not to do it. In order to overcome this difficulty I suggest that there will be 2 example config file: one of them will be the detailed file that was removed. The other one will be the current one. Giving these 2 files appropriate names or otherwise letting users to know why there are 2 config files can solve the problem that users ignored the message about not to use that file as their config file. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux rakefet 2.2.13 #1 Tue Oct 26 14:00:17 EST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-4 The GNU stdc++ library
