On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 09:51:19PM +0300, Lehel Bernadt wrote: > > No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get > only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of > dependency problems, and screw up your existing configuration. Odd, since i use the dselect apt method all the time and it has never screwed up my configuration or given me major dependancy problems (do note though that dselect treats 'Recommends' as 'Depends' for some reason). > apt-get is much easier and cleaner to use, and it will handle the > upgrade intelligently (for documentation check the manpages of apt-get > and sources.list). Since the dselect apt method uses apt-get to do the actual download and upgrade, dselect with the apt method should be just as intelligent as apt-get. That said, i'd recommend apt-get for doing a dist-upgrade since dselect doesn't really support that directly. Normal upgrades work fine with either. -- finger for GPG public key.
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