Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: How to add dependencies that exist
> in another repository"):
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you
>> > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had
>>
>> Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/ suport in
>> the first place (or, if it is really useful to other users of apt, why
>> is it enabled by default) ?
>
> People are going to do this hideous thing anyway. At least this way
> they don't have to untraceably edit the actual master sources.list.
>
> Ian.
And if you don't want it then set
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "/dev/null";
or similar.
.oO( Unless evil software overrides that again in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ :)
MfG
Goswin
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