On Jul 26, 2005, at 19:52:44, Alexander Hansen wrote:
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package
lists for
local filesystem repositories, so that when running dselect you
can see
what deb files are on the local filesystem, even if they aren't
installed
at the moment. I've been unsubscribed for a while, so I don't
know what
development has happened or if the feature has been included
elsewhere,
but that's what I think it used to do, and maybe still does.
That's done by 'scanpackages', now at any rate.
Hmm, maybe they were synonyms? Oh well...
On a side note, does anyone know if porting "aptitude" (from
Debian) has
been attempted? I was considering trying such a port and was
wondering
if anybody has made the attempt before and run into difficult or
unsolvable
problems. Personally I much prefer aptitude to deselect, even
when not
using it to just install packages, because it allows one to mark
packages
as "installed only due to dependency" and it will automatically
remove them
when the depending package goes away or is upgraded.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/aptitude
Hah! That shows me. I checked before I went on vacation and I
couldn't seem
to find it. I guess it was packaged for 10.4 fairly recently then?
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
--
I lost interest in "blade servers" when I found they didn't throw
knives at
people who weren't supposed to be in your machine room.
-- Anthony de Boer
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