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Author: Didier Kryn
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] tool to check for updates without root??
Le 23/06/2016 13:53, Adam Borowski a écrit :
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 11:08:48AM +0200, Irrwahn wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:46:24 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>>>       If the question was only to be informed, I would use apt-watch. If
>>> it is to upgrade my system automatically, I would be afraid it brings in
>>> some undesired systemd/gnome/*kit dependency; therefore it isn't
>>> something I want.
>> I'm under the impression that the apt-watch backend basically
>> serves as a proxy for "apt-get <command>". And the apt-watch
>> frontend is a Gnome applet. (Yuck!) And it's only available in
>> wheezy and in unstable. (D'oh!)
> It's not in unstable: https://bugs.debian.org/772785
> I guess it could be reintroduced for mate or xfce, but at least I am not
> volunteering to do the work.

>

     I thought of it because I found it sometimes installed by default 
(and removed it). Sorry for the noise.    Didier