Hi and thanks for everyone's feedback and the suggestions/encouragement to use aptitude.
I first learned dselect when starting with Debian several years ago. Due to discussions like this, people tipped me off to apt-get and I started making good use of that over the past couple years. I've been aware of aptitude for awhile and tried opening it a few times to see what it is about but was never grabbed by it. Due to this discussion and Fred's link below, I went ahead and gave it a try (the commandline version) to manage this large update. The link clearly points out advantages to aptitude so I'll have to give it more consideration. Thanks everyone! Paul ->>In response to your message<<- --received from Fred-- > > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:44 -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > > Hi all. I should maybe spend more time in the archives but just > > looking for quick responses. > > > > I assume others running Etch noticed the large amount of updates > > today. > > > > When I run > > > > apt-get update;apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > > > I get a similar but different set of changes than if I use 'dselect'. > > > > Just curious about this. For instance, apt-get shows me > > > > 245 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 36 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > > > > whereas dselect yields > > > > 231 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 49 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > > > > I'm sure there may be as many opinions as colors in the rainbow but > > can't help to wonder which is "better". > > You can start making your own opinion by reading this message: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg02135.html > > Fred. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Paul Yeatman (858) 534-9896 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================== ==Proudly brought to you by Mutt== ================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
