On 31 Jan 2002, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Similarly, it will not ship with the APT::Default-Release option set to > > something other than the empty string, as there is no sane default except > > for that. > > Oddly, however, if a user just installs their system, they get an > /etc/apt/sources.list file with the right thing in it.
You might want to note that APT doesn't work at all without that file, so it does make a *little* sense to include a reasonable starting point. Conventional wisdom since APT has been created is that if you add unstable/frozen/whatever to your sources.list you will magically be able to upgrade to unstable/frozen/whatever. I'm not going to invalidate that concept by jamming something in the preferences file or into apt.conf, especially if the reason is "users can't read docs" :P Jason
