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[Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

Andrew wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:50:45AM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
>
> > Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> >
> > > Why on today's sorcery update (devel) has it decided to test 84 
> > > different packages?  From a users point of view it's very annoying and 
> > > time consuming.  Shouldn't this be moved somewhere else?
> > >
> > > Jeremy
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> > Ok I discovered how to turn it off.  Shouldn't these things either 
> > default to off or something?  I don't like updating programs and it 
> > changing my preferences.  Maybe some way to alert the user that a new 
> > option is available? I don't really know.
>
> It is off by default by popular request has been for a long long time.
>
>  grep UPDATEFIX /etc/sorcery/config 
>             UPDATEFIX=${UPDATEFIX:=off}
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Hm mine magically enabled itself then.  I'm not sure why.

Jeremy