On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
>> dpkg got itself tied into knots W.R.T. dependency ordering on large
>> installs when I tried Debian 2.2.
>
> Wow. Care to post some of how you managed that? I've done several
> installs of Debian 2.2, never managed that.
I don't recall the details, but it was the result of an end-to-end grovel
over the package list in dselect, seeing what was available. It is entirely
possible the UI simply let me do something stupid. I was playing around with
it as much as I was doing anything else. In any event, after that point, dpkg
was never happy with the state of my system -- it always said something was
incomplete, or unconfigured, or something. It was easier to simply nuke the
system and reinstall.
> Definitely a matter of preference (but you get that with Linux :-).
Certainly. 'Tis one of the biggest selling points.
> I do hope there's more work integrating the best of both worlds.
Fortunately, Open Source seems to be good at that, in general. :)
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