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Joey Hess

2005-10-02, 2:50 am

Just a couple of comments:

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> - New command-line option --schedule-only that just records the
> requested actions in the state file without actually performing them.
> (Closes: #312249)


Hmm, I have a feeling it should be possible to use this in tasksel to
let a task be selected but still start aptitude in interactive mode at
the main pckage browser rather than the install screen.

> - aptitude now cleanly handles being suspended while dpkg is running.
> (Closes: #137311, #169479)


Hurrah!

> - The password database is used instead of $HOME to determine where
> aptitude's configuration file goes, so people using sudo don't endup
> with root-owned mode 0700 files in their home directory.
> (Closes: #272429, #274216, #285334, #272409)


Well, aptitude and debconf both it seems. Which suggests to me this is a
larger problem. Also note that I got just as many bugs reports after I
made debconf do this as I was able to close by doing it. :-/

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see shy jo

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