Joey Hess wrote: > Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Has it been discussed already? I'd really love to see aptitude > > rather than dselect in Woody! It's working really well these days; > > has not segv'd in several months. dselect has finally been outdone! > > Does it handle installs from multi-cd sets correctly? I have thought > about offering console-apt/deity as an option, but was told it still had > problems in that area. > > I'd love to offer an option, but it needs to be mature and more > user-friendly than dselect. And we're mere days away from freezing base.
The other problem with console-apt is that it has no way to recognize dpkg --set-selections settings. Since tasksel uses that to mark what packages are selected, it really needs to be supported by the secondary package selector. Of course dselect supports it. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
