On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:22:49PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Aaron Maxwell wrote: > >I read a > >post once in which someone bemoaned the passing of dselect, because it > >highlighted newly-minted packages. With apt*, he rarely knew of that > >new software, unless he just stumbled across it. I thought that was a > >pretty good point. > > > Good point. However, aptitude always shows you new packages. IIRC, > when dselect went away, aptitude was the recommended "official" replacement.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dselect Debian `dselect' package handling frontend version 1.13.22 (i386). . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zless /usr/share/doc/dselect/changelog.Debian.gz dpkg (1.13.22) unstable; urgency=low . . . -- Guillem Jover <[email snipped]> Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:03:29 +0300 Has my unstable box entered some parallel history? It seems over here that dselect is alive and well... -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]