Re: Dselect insists on installing "info" when "cvs" is selected
Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> writes:
> Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
>> dselect is brain damaged.
>
> It's not.
But it's interactive, and it's not emacs, nor vi, and thus evil :-)
>> Of course the problem gets even harier becuase while dselect will not let
>> you say not to a recommends, apt doesn't even know that there are such
>> things.
>
> I've always said that people shouldn't use apt-get for complex upgrades
> for exactly that reason.
Arg, so the much praised apt-get is broken? What would it take to fix
this? Why doesn't apt-get upgrade print a warning message about it's
brokenness? What about BUGS in the apt-get manpage? Not every Debian
user knows all your quotes by heart, I didn't know about this one.
Also, what makes an upgrade complex, how to recognise one, should I
learn dselect after all? Or is this a ``shouldn't use'' that's more
of a waver and that can be safely ignored, such as ``don't run
unstable''.
Jan.
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