On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:31:35PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 03 January 2014 14:16:34 Brian wrote: > > The '-s' can be omitted if more than one package is to installed. > > i.e., if you are requesting more than one package, it will tell you > what it is going to install before doing it anyway. You need the -s > for one package, because if you have only asked for one package it > otherwise just goes right ahead and installs it.
I've always looked on it as; if you didn't ask for a particular package to be installed then it won't do it without your permission. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140105004317.GC16538@tal
