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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:53:01PM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> I'm aware of that. That's not what i was asking. I wanted to know if there
> where some cases where one had to use dselect to do things or if you could
> achieve everything with a dif
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:36, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
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>> So, you mean that with "aptitude install" you'll get the same effect
>> as "apt-get dselect-upgrade" after a "dpkg --set-selections <
>> myselection"
>> That would be cool. Have you tested this?
>>
> Try it yourself with zip or something:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:13:29AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
>> we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
>
> Why does Unix have 20 bajillion text
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> > Hi,
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> > I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
> > we have tools like aptitude and ap
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:41:14AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, dselect was the first package manager for
> debian
dselect isn't a package manager. Neither is apt. They're both just
different front-ends for dpkg
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:13:29AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
> we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Why does Unix have 20 bajillion text editors and a dozen C compilers?
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 17:36, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> So, you mean that with "aptitude install" you'll get the same effect
> as "apt-get dselect-upgrade" after a "dpkg --set-selections <
> myselection"
> That would be cool. Have you tested this?
>
Try it yourself with zip or something:
dpkg --
Chris wrote:
>> For the common daily use, apt-get and aptitude seem to do the job.
>> The only situation i can think of where you'll need dselect is
>> after a dpkg --set-selections < myselection.
>
> For this situation, you can use to any of:
> 1."apt-get dselect-upgrade"
> 2."dselect install"
> 3
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 00:13, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
> we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Obsolete?
> For the common daily use, apt-get and aptitude seem to do the job.
> The only situation i can think of where
On Fre, 2004-02-20 at 00:13, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
> we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
:)
To the best of my knowledge, dselect was the first package manager for
debian and is still there for the sake of maybe
On 2004-02-19, Benedict Verheyen penned:
> Hi,
>
> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when we
> have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
My simplistic answer, without considering any of the interesting stuff
you point out, is:
1) dselect was around before aptitude was e
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> Hi,
>
> I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
> we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
> Off course, if you like dselect, stop read
Hi,
I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when
we have tools like aptitude and apt-get.
Off course, if you like dselect, stop reading ;)
I don't like it so i try to use other tools to accomplish the same
stuff you can do with dselect.
To try to figure this out,i looked at
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