Hello Michael! On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:00:06AM -0700, Michael Peddemors wrote: > On April 20, 2004 01:14 am, you wrote: > > First of all, apparently you're using "apt-get install" for upgrading > > packages. This is a bad idea. Use dselect, aptitude, synaptic, these > > do a much better job at automatically handling dependencies. > > The packages themselves are meant to handle dependencies, that is the beauty > of Debian isn't it? Well, actually the Debian package format allows to state dependencies (ranging from hard Depends: via medium Recommends: to soft Suggests:) rather than letting the packages handle those themselves. A higher level tool like dselect, aptitude, synaptic, and apt-get as well, can parse these statements and conduct the best way of proceeding from these, and if user action needs to be taken present the user a reasonable set of choices. Some higher level tools are »smarter« in doing so than others, though, especially when upgrading a large suite of packages including adding and removing supplementary stuff... So in conclusion I concur with Dominique. Just some nitpicking, cheers, Flo
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