Re: KDE install on potato - still helpless newbie
> > apt is smart, but it also is smart enough not to make some decisions for
> > you. dselect forces the decision making whereas apt is designed to make
> > decisions for you. If it cannot make the decisions in a fashion it
> > thinks is acceptable then it decides not to make the decision...which is
>
> So if there is a choice of two packages which would satisfy dependencies
> apt-get would give up and let the user decide. If that is what happened
> above, then of course it's a good thing. I thought apt-get didn't know
> where to get the two packages ("isn't going to be installed") and gave up
> because of that.
not completely..there just happens to be 3 or 4 different packages that have
choices...if it were one and the deps were decent it would figure it out...
however with task-kde there are several choices it must make.
Ivan
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