Comment 9 for bug 135284

Julian has tested passing 32941 arguments to 'apt-get install' without problems, and says that APT's command-line handling has been rewritten in the intervening time so that this is likely no longer a problem.

I tried a Kickstart file with 1149 packages (everything on the server CD). It didn't work due to conflicts, of course, but they seemed to be passed correctly to APT.

It looks like this can indeed be closed now; sorry for doubting you, Julian. Lars, if you still have a problem, please post an example Kickstart file and logs and we'll look into it.