On Thu, March 20, 2008 08:52, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote: >> My rational is that some setup runs apt* updates automatically. > > Huh? I'm not absolutely sure wich one does, but probably some of : cron-apt, update-notifier and apt (/etc/cron.daily/apt). It probably depends on their configuration.
>> If a user later use "aptitude install foo", it would install those >> updates too, which leads the user to wonder "Why is that installing >> verytinyhttpdaemon requires downloading 20Mb and tens of packages ?" >> (ok my figures are overestimated, but you get the idea;) > > It won't unless you mark those packages for upgrading. You are right. Using "aptitude install foo" is just fine. My mistake come from the fact that I synchronise /root/.aptitude/config on all my systems... which has "Auto-Upgrade" set to true. Sorry for the noise. Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
