Hi, On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 01:27 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Since the command "aptitude download" is generally used to (somehow) > > fetch a .deb to the current directory, this really should work for "file" > > sources, too. > > The you have two copys of the files on your System... > > For example I have XFree86 and OpenOffice.org recompiled for my needs, > which mean if aptitude copy the file from a local directory into > /var/cache/apt/archives I have two times 350 MByte of files in my > system. > > For what. > > You requested a realy bad feature.
Are we talking about features being "good" or "bad"? Or about intended and documented behaviour? Consider someone that says, at the command line: "Get me a copy of this .deb into the current directory." (using "aptitude download <package>", as documented). Then, aptitude (at least, the command line version) shouldn't try to be intelligent and say: "No, this is bad!". If you don't want a copy of the respective package in the current directory, just don't call "aptitude download <package>". BTW: The behaviour of "aptitude install <package>" etc. doesn't need to change, of course. Thanks for considering. bye, Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
