Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, David Pye wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 05:53, Nate Duehr wrote: <...> There are actually dependency issues that apt-get CANNOT resolve that dselect can. Specifically when a package is added to the archives and a new dependency is created, apt-get chokes on it saying that it

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-27 Thread David Pye
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 05:53, Nate Duehr wrote: > > I'm sorry ... I've used dselect. I still have bad dreams about the > > hours I spent lost wandering round in there (not to mention in its > > so-called help system). IMHO it's user interface exemplifies the > > phrase "as user friendly as a co

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-26 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 25, 2004, at 8:16 PM, Nick Boyce wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:30:50 -0600 (MDT), Bruce Sass wrote: Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-26 Thread sven kissner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 July 2004 04:16, Nick Boyce wrote: > I'm sorry ... I've used dselect. I still have bad dreams about the > hours I spent lost wandering round in there (not to mention in its > so-called help system). IMHO it's user interface exemplifies t

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary results. Since aptitude's output is mo

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-26 Thread RickTaylor
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: }> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: }>>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that }>>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary }>>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include i

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Nick Boyce
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 13:30:50 -0600 (MDT), Bruce Sass wrote: >>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that >>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary >>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here. >> >> In my experience,

Re: packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: >>> Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that >>> aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary >>> results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it h

packages fetching tools

2004-07-25 Thread Bruce Sass
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Nathaniel W. Turner wrote: Since people keep telling us that apt-get is braindead, and that aptitude does a better job, I tried that too, with similarly scary results. Since aptitude's output is more compact, I include it here. In my experience, aptitude has its own set of pro