Ben Lutgens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, what with apt, console-apt I rarely need to use dselect. Even though I > have no problem using it.
Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or conflicts), like dselect does? I find the default behavior (just doing things behind your back) way too dangerous to be useful. [I realize that it highlights them in the package list, but it does so silently, and it's rather hard to notice such changes in the very very long list of packages...] Also, is there any concept of `hold', since the help screen doesn't say. Thanks, -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche