On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:13:21PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > So uh, why did you let it? > I presume this would have been your response if I had reported that 'vi' had > deleted my kernel images, too? :) > Why did I "let" it?!?! Because I was never asked. I asked apt to "install" > and I ended up without some critical packages. Were you running with --assume-yes or something similar? Normally if you try to apt-get install something that requires anything beyond the exact change specified on the command line you get a prompt like this: # apt-get install mesag-glide2-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libglide2 libglide2-dev mesag3-glide2 The following packages will be REMOVED: libutahglx-dev libutahglx1 The following NEW packages will be installed: libglide2 libglide2-dev mesag-glide2-dev mesag3-glide2 0 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 1784kB of archives. After unpacking 4922kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] which appears to be exactly what you're asking for. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
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