On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:32:49 -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: >On Saturday 10 of January 2004 16:49, Greg Madden wrote: > >> Apt-get will not install a package if it depends on a new >> package. ... Dselect does a more complete job of satisfying >> depends ... > >Don't touch dselect, if you don't know what you are doing!
Don't worry ! I'd rather tear my own arm off than re-enter that dark and murky pool of horror. Once bitten (ok, twice actually), the fear has never quite left me :) How can dselect be so bad, when apt is so good ? >Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time >reading it. > -- Moses Hadas Oh the joys of English language ambiguity. Cheers, Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- "Bother", said Pooh, as he struggled with sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here".

