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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:53:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
I'm aware of that. That's not what i was asking. I wanted to know if there
where some cases where one had to use dselect to do things or if you could
achieve everything with a
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 00:13, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Obsolete?
For the common daily use, apt-get and aptitude seem to do the job.
The only situation i can think of where
Chris wrote:
For the common daily use, apt-get and aptitude seem to do the job.
The only situation i can think of where you'll need dselect is
after a dpkg --set-selections myselection.
For this situation, you can use to any of:
1.apt-get dselect-upgrade
2.dselect install
3.aptitude
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:36, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
So, you mean that with aptitude install you'll get the same effect
as apt-get dselect-upgrade after a dpkg --set-selections
myselection
That would be cool. Have you tested this?
Try it yourself with zip or something:
dpkg
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:13:29AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Why does Unix have 20 bajillion text editors and a dozen C compilers?
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:41:14AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, dselect was the first package manager for
debian
dselect isn't a package manager. Neither is apt. They're both just
different front-ends for dpkg.
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: what's the use of dselect
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Off course, if you like dselect, stop reading ;)
I don't like it so i try to use other tools
Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:13:29AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Why does Unix have 20 bajillion text editors
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:36, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
So, you mean that with aptitude install you'll get the same effect
as apt-get dselect-upgrade after a dpkg --set-selections
myselection
That would be cool. Have you tested this?
Try it yourself with zip or something:
dpkg
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Off course, if you like dselect, stop reading ;)
I don't like it so i try to use other tools to accomplish the same
stuff you can do with dselect.
To try to figure this out,i looked at
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: what's the use of dselect
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Off course, if you like dselect, stop reading ;)
I don't like it so i try to use other tools
On 2004-02-19, Benedict Verheyen penned:
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when we
have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
My simplistic answer, without considering any of the interesting stuff
you point out, is:
1) dselect was around before aptitude was even
On Fre, 2004-02-20 at 00:13, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
:)
To the best of my knowledge, dselect was the first package manager for
debian and is still there for the sake of maybe
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