Many thanks for clearing that up.
-Mike
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Michael D. Marziani
Systems Administrator
-Original Message-
From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:31 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Desperately trying to
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:11:53AM +0800, Russ Pitman wrote:
> -snip-
> > It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix
> > didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1.
>
> And sometime soon in unstable ?
After the woody release.
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Colin Wat
-snip-
> It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix
> didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1.
>
> --
> Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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And sometime soon in unstable ?
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r
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote:
> You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and 'X'
> to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect cares so
> much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency screen loop
> just becau
begin Karsten M. Self quotation:
> Otherwise, aptitude's interface is a vast, vast improvement over
> dselect. I still occasionally drop into dselect, but do most of my
> package selection from the command line with 'apt-get install foo'.
I tend to use dselect for most things. For my daily Sid
its 'recommendation'.
So does recommend = require or what? I am just a tad confused, AFTER
reading all the docs I could find.
-Michael
-Original Message-
From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sub
begin Michael Marziani quotation:
> I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard
> dselect can be more effective once it's mastered.
dselect has a rather odd UI, but it's a very effective tool, with just
one little exception...
> ... but when I try to un-select
> som
on Thu, Mar 21, 2002, Michael Marziani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard
> dselect can be more effective once it's mastered.
The primary difference: dselect walks you through package "recommends"
options. Generally, once you've g
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