On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:03 pm, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-03-12 15:43:53, schrieb Roland Stigge: > > Hi, > > > > BTW: Why are you so resistant to the suggested change? Which harm would > > it do? (Are you calling "aptitude download <package>" for the "file" > > case if you _don't_ want the .deb file in the current directory?) > > Because most people do not need to have the Package twice in there > filesystem. If there where the default aptitude will eat up your > diskspace.
Roland, Something you might not be aware of is that aptitude re-uses apt's download routines to implement "aptitude download"; thus, file: URLs are handled the same way as in apt-get. That doesn't mean it can't be changed [0], but it does mean that I'd have to take a fairly straightforward piece of code and adjust it to handle file: URLs as a special case. i.e., it's not a matter of making aptitude be "less smart", it's a matter of making it "more smart". Daniel [0] although I'd be tempted to just make symlinks if people really want to do something silly like this >=) -- /------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------\ | Wisdom is one of the few things | | that looks bigger the farther away it is. | | -- Terry Pratchett | \------ (if (not (understand-this)) (go-to http://www.schemers.org)) -------/
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