On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:52:44PM +0200, Martin Kuball wrote: > | Would you like to explain this a little bit? What exactly is the > | advantage of using a front end over plain apt-get. At least I did not > | encounter any problems using the apt-get aproach. > > 'apt-get {install,upgrade,dist-upgrade}' works as intended. However, > it has the following limitations : > . no notification is a package becomes 'obsolete' (removed from > the package repository) > . no way to trace dependencies to resolve any > installation/upgrade issues > . no way to track what packages are automatically installed > solely to meet a dependency (and therefore no way to > automatically remove them if the package depending on it > is removed) > . no way to install and remove packages simultaneously (you > must run apt-get at least twice) > . no way to browse what packages are available or installed > . no way to show details for just a specific version of a > package ('apt-cache show' gives details for all available > versions)
. when things go wrong, its output can be confusing even to experts; an interactive dependency resolver is much easier to follow in practice -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]