Getting rid of all debian-related non-working stuff (was: Comments in /etc/apt/preferences)

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Johannes Kastl wrote:

> On 04/23/2007 10:14 AM Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>> IIRC no, and not really worth fixing, the preferences file as it is today
>> (and has been forever) needs to die, really, in favor of something saner
>> and more flexible, ditto for sources.list and various other things.
>
> Then let me ask another question:
>
> Are there plans to get rid of all stuff that is debian-related and not
> working?

Yes :)

> Man-pages which tell debian-stuff, e.g. apt_preferences?
>
> I would like to have man pages that are smaller, but only include
> stuff which is actually relevant for apt4suse, nor for Debians apt.

Check out the 0.5.15lorg3.90 development version - the man pages have seen 
a major revamp, including throwing out debianisms where found and 
replacing with information relevant to apt-rpm.

 	- Panu -