Package: apt Severity: wishlist The following is a common user error.
1. Update /etc/apt/sources.list with a spiffy new source 2. apt-get install a package which is available from the new source 3. Receive an unhelpful error message about the package being unavailable 4. Post to a newsgroup or forum asking why the heck not If #3 could instead print a warning about a source being listed in /etc/apt/sources.list but not having any corresponding files in /var/lib/apt/lists, with a hint that "apt-get update" might help, perhaps #4 could be avoided. Better yet, provide an option to perform required updates on the fly (or rather, make it the default, and provide an option to turn off this feature). /* era */ -- formail -s procmail <http://www.iki.fi/era/spam/ >http://www.euro.cauce.org/ cat | more | cat<http://www.iki.fi/era/unix/award.html>http://www.debian.org/
