On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:00:43AM +0100, Claudius Hubig wrote: > "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I'm wondering how the following Ubuntu-isms made it into Debian's APT > >configuration: > > > >cbell@circe:~$ apt-config dump | egrep 'verse|ubuntu' > >APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-ubuntu-modules-.*"; > >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/metapackages"; > >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/metapackages"; > >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "universe/oldlibs"; > >APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections:: "multiverse/oldlibs"; > >cbell@circe:~$ > > Interesting. > > >Are these really necessary? > > I can imagine that in case you have a Ubuntu repository or PPA in > your sources.list, you might want to have these. This might be > especially the case with the first line, as it is possible that a > specific driver/module is only available from such sources. > > >And is it worth filing a bug for their removal? > > Do you think these are harmful in any way? If so, how? And if they > are harmful, does this ‘harm’ make up for the potential benefit they > have for users either mixing Ubuntu and Debian or wanting to use one > to install the other?
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