[xen-tools-discuss] Security concerns with calling "apt-get --force-yes"

[Steve Kemp]

> I've tracked down --force-yes usage in xen-tools as far as its version
> history is available. So no chance to find a reasoning in the commit
> messages or so.

  I added it because adding "--yes" was insufficient to cause packages to
 be installed without prompting in all circumastances.

  This continues to be the case. 

  I do appreciate that forcing the installation of packages will,
 potentially, allow the installation of packages that the user might not
 prefer to occur.  But I cannot see an obvious solution.

Steve
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