Thread: Do you want INSTALL FROM FILE back?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-01-12 , 22:27
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#118
Originally Posted by fatalsaint View Post
There is a common problem with apt that is experienced across all system. If you have a flakey network connection and try to update your repositories you can potentially corrupt list files inside /var/lib/apt/lists. These files are used by apt only but they will also break your Application Manager. 1 simple command will fix this... delete those files.
Sounds like a serious bug, but Red Pill mode is -not- required to fix this.

Application Manager should respond appropriately to this situation and fix it automatically without user input. I'd rather not have to talk someone into activating a dirty hack mode or (worse) through using the command line to fix it.

Perhaps instead of banging on about Red Pill mode we should file a bug report.

If you read the thread.. you certainly didn't comprehend some major portions of it.
I comprehended it fully. Red Pill mode was mostly a tool for doing non-standard, out of band things and had one useful purpose that exposes something that should be handled elsewhere.