On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect. > > ROTFLMAO!!
TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using its apt access method for a while, but sometimes it would do things wrong (like trying to download packages that weren't selected in dselect), and each time I asked Ian Jackson WTF dselect/dpkg was up to he'd say that the annoying bit was apt's doing. Since switching back to dpkg-ftp it's all become problem-free again. Lots of people seem to like apt and whatever pretty front ends you can get for it, so obviously it can't be all that bad, but is dselect/dpkg-ftp's future still pretty secure? I hope so, but I'm worried. Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of something you just deselected. -- Mark