Benjamin Scott said:
> 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.
OK, I don't use dselect. I see lots of traffic on the debian-devel list about
how bad it is (of course, I immediately see lots of traffic on the same list
about how good it is, Linux users being Linux users). I personally use apt &
dpkg for 99.9% of my stuff, the remainder is either console apt (the way
dselect should have been built, IMNSHO), or gnome-apt (OK, I used it once,
then decided running console-apt in an xterm was better, but isn't the purpose
of X to allow you to run lots of Xterms? ;)
>
> > 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. :)
yep (see previous post about Connectiva).
jeff
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