Re: apt_preferences
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 05:32:37PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> was heard to say:
> IMHO you should take the approach that the user of aptitude should expect
> that such changes are permanent and write it to the preferences file. It
> was intended to be written by a GUI to retain exactly these sorts of
> things.
Hm, ok. I'll take a serious look at it sometime. Clobbering the whole
file isn't nice, but maybe I can use a "## BEGIN APTITUDE SETTINGS" approach.
(although that means they can't edit the whole file from aptitude)
> > in; however, no-one has yet stepped forward to suggest a solution to the
> > issue of "what do I do when there are multiple available releases?"
>
> Show the newest release in the column I'd say.
Are releases always well-ordered? I guess I could hack this for
"unstable", "testing", and "stable", but what about "progeny" (they had
their own Release file, did't they?) or "bobsrandomarchive"?
Daniel
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