[Aptitude-devel] Bug#643335: aptitude silently loses changes when run as non-root

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-04-15 08:54:09 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> On 15 April 2012 00:38, Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> wrote:
> > On 2012-04-14 22:08:20 +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> >> This is set if you previously selected "Never display this message
> >> again" when presented with the warning.
> >
> > I don't think I had ever selected this (on two machines, it would be
> > even more surprising).
> 
> That is the only place the program sets it.  Remove the option and see
> if it recurs.

It no longer occurs.

BTW, I think that proposing to become root now in the warning
would be a good idea.

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