Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
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Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DO NOT USE dselect!
Why not?
Why are you asking me? It wasn't me that said
From: Steven Satelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote:
Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal
{mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the
I've always found that unless I stick to one
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aptitude, apt-get and dpkg are more than enough to help me out in a
command line environ. Actually I do not use any other interfaces for
package management.
Then... Why are you complaining?
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What are you thinking dselect does for you that apt-get doesn't?
well, this is just an anecdote (the singular of data...), but -
Yesterday apt-get maliciously lunched my install(okay, okay, I was
trying
to upgrade firestarter even though apt-get told me to file a bug report
because it
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Yesterday apt-get maliciously lunched my install (okay, okay, I was
trying to upgrade firestarter even though apt-get told me to file a bug
report because it thought the install was impossible... more on that coming
up soon).
:} I'd think
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Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core,
and fiddling with package selections using dselect,
and now
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 06:39, Paul Johnson wrote:
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Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote:
I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core,
and
--- Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending
aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends.
Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.
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On (13/07/04 13:36), Thomas Adam wrote:
--- Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending
aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends.
Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.
FWIW
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
How's that?
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On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
How's that?
I am subscribed to D-U.
Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with things that way dselect does, in its
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know about that
How's that?
Mainly apt-get doesn't screw with things that way
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:57:43 +, ricktaylor wrote:
Personally, I'd use kpackage or synaptic in X and dselect in a terminal
{mainly because synaptic and kpackage are easier to read... the
I've always found that unless I stick to one package manager - synaptic at
the moment, they resolve
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 16:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt-get has MUCH MUCH better dependency handling (yes I know
about that
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