Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt. > 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. That's a tricky task for the system to handle because it can't read your mind. There are tools like deborphan which find libs (or anything else) that are no longer depended on. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>