On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 08:53:47PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:43:33PM -0900, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > I never have understood the reasons (haven't checked very hard), but it > > seems like apt-get normally gives an "are you sure?" prompt before doing > > the action, but sometimes it just goes ahead and does it. Perhaps the > > no-prompt behavior is automatic if there aren't many/any dependencies > > to be hauled in or removed. I don't have enough time on aptitude to > > know whether it does the same. > > apt-get and aptitude, when run from the command-line, will only prompt > if they have to do something you didn't explicitly ask them to do.
Thank you, that's simple and makes sense. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
