Jimmy Richards wrote: > Does does /etc/apt/apt.conf work on woody or higher? I figured it > needed to be in the 70debconf file for my sid system since it's the file > that orginally contained the apt options. If so... does the apt.conf > file override the 70debconf file? I'll have a look at the man page(s) > about this. Good stuff to know.
/etc/apt/apt.conf is still the canoical location for system-local overrides to apt's behavior. The apt.conf.d directory is so packages can easily drop in apt stuff without having to modify apt.conf. Compare with /etc/crontab and /etc/cron.d/ -- see shy jo
