On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > The "expected" workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes > > you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes that > > will be made (including ones that were required by your past changes). > > If you like it, you confirm that it's OK and aptitude applies the > > changes. > > Then how do you know what changes cause what? Are you going through > the list and somehow trace back all the dependencies to figure that > out? And when you make another change, you have to start all over > again? > > BTW, how do you tell aptitude to tell you what it would do? I just > started it and couldn't figure that out. I would like to see what it > would do without me making any changes. > > > The "expected" workflow in dselect is that as you pick each change > > that you want to make, dselect jumps to a screen where it tells you all > > the other changes it's about to make because they were required by what > > you just did. If you like them, you confirm that they're OK and > > dselect drops you back to the main package list. Once you've finished > > picking changes, you tell dselect to proceed with applying them all. > > Yeah, very easy and straightforward :) Can you configure aptitude to > do that? > > > Believe me, there are people who hate the dselect model just as > > passionately as you hate how aptitude does it; aptitude was deliberately > > designed to be different for just this reason. Luckily, we still have > > both options and you can use the one that works for you. :-) > > As far as I understood it, it was supposed to replace dselect because > it has some advantages in how it's managing the packages. Since > aptitude came out, I'm afraid that deselect might be removed some day. > > Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out. >
If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks. > > > But aptitude does *not* remove software without asking -- it just > > asks in a different place. > > How do you know that? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
