That's how both yum and urpmi work, too. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2012 10:08 PM, "Matt Harrison" <<a href="mailto:matt.harrison82@gmail.com">matt.harrison82@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> In Debian, I've noted that behaviour, but only when there are no additional dependencies to install....ie...you install package A, and package A has no additional dependencies, it will just install package A without asking you since nothing additional will be installed. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Chick Tower <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I have a question for all you Debian/Ubuntu users. I installed Bodhi Linux > on a laptop. It's based upon Ubuntu, but slimmed down. I've been > installing some stuff with apt-get (e.g., "apt-get install privoxy"). Most > of the time, apt-get lists what it will install, including dependencies, and > how much space it will consume, and then asks if I want to proceed. > However, I'd estimate that 30% to 40% of the time it does all that but ask > if I want to proceed, and it just finishes the installation. Has anyone > else seen that before? > -- > > Chick > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>