| 1 | | Rewrite it with a flamethrower. Ideally using unattended-upgrades or something more robust than a sketchy shell script. |
| | 1 | Given #1020, #1145, and #840, we need to re-write auto-update, because it's now full of hacks. The consensus is that we should switch to apt-get, which has better multi-arch support. But, we need to preserve the check for not removing metapackages. Perhaps this can be accomplished with apt-get -s? |
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| | 3 | OTOH, if we don't set autoremove (and it's not set by default), apt-get would only remove the actual metapackages, and not their dependencies, which is less catastrophic. So you'd have a functional machine, but machtype -L and possibly the greeter would yell at you. |
