Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: How to add dependencies that exist in 
another repository"):
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you
> > describe.  (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had
> 
> Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/ suport in
> the first place (or, if it is really useful to other users of apt, why
> is it enabled by default) ?

People are going to do this hideous thing anyway.  At least this way
they don't have to untraceably edit the actual master sources.list.

Ian.


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