On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:48:25PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dselect is quite fine if you like its interface. Its handling of > Suggests and Recommends tends to be much more intelligent than apt-get.
I used to use dselect myself just to browse through packages, which was nice for seeing what was out there. But the main issue I ended up having is the way it treats all recommends as *dependencies*. So it would install a lot of extra junk that I either had no need for, or worse, would conflict with existing packages I did need if I wasn't paying attention. I've found watching the Depian Weekly News new/noteworthy packages and random searches with apt-cache to be a tad saner in recent times. But to each his own of course, aptitude is still nice, I haven't had a chance to play with it too much myself recently.
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