Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

[Mateusz Konieczny]

No, I want to stop apt-get from asking dumb questions. Asking
whatever it is OK to use 1/25000 of disk is a dumb question that
should not be asked.

At the same time it makes sense to ask for confirmation about
installing 2GB of new programs, so -y is not a proper solution in
that case (also, I mentioned "I know that I can use parameters
(with aliases or apt.conf I can even make it permanent) to
completely skip this check.").

2015-03-25 13:47 GMT+01:00 John Moser <john.r.moser at gmail.com>:

> Why?
>
> On multiple CentOS systems installed from the same CD using the same
> parameters, yum will either list updates and ask Y/n or just
> update/install stuff without confirmation; this irritates me, because
> sometimes I see updates I want to run in a separate batch for risk
> management, or I see that a kernel update is going to add 15MB to /boot
> which has 9MB free and I need to uninstall old kernels.
>
> apt is going to ask me whether to continue or not anyway; if I don't
> want to be asked, I'll use apt-get -y.  It may as well be informative
> about it, listing all packages to be installed, removed, and updated, as
> well as the disk space impact.
>
> What do you want apt to say instead?  "After this operation, some voodoo
> will happen that you don't need to worry about!  Continue?  [Y/n]"
>
> On 03/25/2015 08:42 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > apt-get will ask user about using significant amounts of disk space
> >
> > but it seems that what is considered as significant needs adjustment,
> > for me "major amount of disk space" is about 200MB but apt-get will ask
> > questions like "After this operation, 9805 kB of additional disk space
> > will be
> > used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]".
> >
> > I propose increasing this threshold to 50MB.
> >
> > I know that I can use parameters (with aliases or apt.conf I can even
> > make it
> > permanent) to completely skip this check.
> >
> > I am not aware about any way that allows user to configure this threshold
> > (see
> >
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/596691/how-can-i-stop-apt-get-from-asking-about-using-minor-amounts-of-additional-disk
> > ).
> >
> > Note: i was directed to this mailing list by
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
> > ("Discussing features and existing policy") linked from
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
> >
> >
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