On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:47:51 +0100 Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > Apparently synaptic keeps its config in its own config file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99synaptic. Do you mean synaptic reads all config > files in order, and since 99synaptic is the last, it can override all > previous settings?
For the fun of it, I just ran an "apt-get install --install-recommends --no-install-recommends" and it chose to not install the recommends. The same with contradicting lines in apt.conf(.d/*): APT::Install-Recommends "0"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; This will install the recommends, the other way around it won't. Apparently there's still some behavior left in modern Linux that is coherent with an autistic mindset, hahaha. > I must confess I don't understand how this set of > config files is processed; there are quite a lot of files in > etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. There's a man for apt.conf, which doesn't exist > and no man for apt.conf.d, which exists! As with any of these newish "*.d/" folders, you can just $ cat apt.conf.d/* > apt.conf && rm -r apt.conf.d/ without any consequences regarding the configuration. AFAIU this is all about easier deployment (and automated removal) of configurations - like hitting some button on a shady website to add distribution independent repositories to the sources.list. Regards, Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
