trash
September 21st, 2005, 04:35 PM
I don't know if this annoys anybody else but there are minor differences in the way that these three programs handle repositories listed... editing apt with '#' with a terminal, synaptic 'add' and 'remove' and update 'add' and 'remove'.
Recently I started using the auto update more often and realized that when i 'remove' from the list of repositories, it literally removes them when i was expecting it to kindly mark said repo with a '#'. Synaptic is equally as calous for example it will lump together Ubuntu main and universe into one line which is fine, but when I remove universe it just removes the entire line and doesn't replace the deb main, just leaving the main sources.
At one time in auto update and synaptic(i think), in preferences it allowed you to check or uncheck a repo and did not delete the repo the way 'remove' does, but this is no longer the case. Anybody else bothered by this and is there maybe a better way than i am doing it?
Recently I started using the auto update more often and realized that when i 'remove' from the list of repositories, it literally removes them when i was expecting it to kindly mark said repo with a '#'. Synaptic is equally as calous for example it will lump together Ubuntu main and universe into one line which is fine, but when I remove universe it just removes the entire line and doesn't replace the deb main, just leaving the main sources.
At one time in auto update and synaptic(i think), in preferences it allowed you to check or uncheck a repo and did not delete the repo the way 'remove' does, but this is no longer the case. Anybody else bothered by this and is there maybe a better way than i am doing it?