Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > 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. >
This is borked. Installing packages silently without the user's permission is certainly bad. What difference does it make if the package size is small ? Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
