[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long
been know. This one point bears correction. ]
Enrique> You won't have wait for hours while a list of "Skipping
Enrique> foo. Skipping bar." is displayed at the screen.
1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mountable was released around
February of 1997, ie over 15 months ago.
2. My current favourite for installing just a package foo [1]
$ apg-get install foo
Finally, even if it took 5 hours: I now have the 'pleasure' of spending most
of my time (at work) with an NT4 box. How long do you think will it take to
reconfigure that once I upgrade the OS? If it survives at all. We *are* doing
quite well, actually. There's always room for improvement, of course.
Dirk
[1] My only minor gripe with apt is that it doesn't log as dpkg-mountable.
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