Re: broken dist-upgrade
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 09:25:26PM +0930, Disembodied Head wrote:
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> Jeez mate, if you love dselect so much why don't you marry it? =)
Why do so many people act like it's their mother in law, that is the
interesting question.
Dselect seems to catch a lot of flak from certain people. Usually, this
is done in a "mobbing"-like fashion and the tone of their comments is
mostly tendentious and looks like it is not really ment to be seriously
argued about. These people should try to hang out less on irc, because
it affects their ability to form judgements based on their own opinions
and actual facts that they are able to relate to themselves.
The number one reason why I keep preaching dselect is for all the
people who complain, that they got into a nightmare after blindly running
"apt-get dist-upgrade" to upgrade to unstable, because some dude told them
it was okay and apt-get r0xs! They would not have had these problems,
if they had gone about more carefully. Dselect is currently the best
tool for this purpose.
I have never had any of these problems. I use dselect. I rtfm.
If it weren't for all the senseless whining about dselect, people would
not be so confused about what to do, and would take the time to learn
the tool. How wrong can that be?
Cheers,
Joost
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