On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<law...@thenilgiris.com> wrote:
> hi,
> in debian, apt-get sometimes asks whether to proceed or not, and at other
> times does not. Why is this?

>From my experience of using apt-get in Ubuntu, I was able to arrive at
the following conclusion. Don't know if its correct. But I think this
is the reason. I think it is the same for Debian.

apt-get asks for confirmation only when the package size is large.
Small packages are downloaded and installed without confirmation.


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Sin Cera,
Bhargav Prasanna
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