Re: Why not dselect?

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:

>   - dselect's update is (or wasn't) quite synched with apt, which
>     means/meant that a seperate [U]pdate step is/was required.  This can
>     be time-consuming on a <= 56K line.

I've configured dselect to use apt-get.

I update both databases with a _single_ "dselect update" call from the
comand line. Afterwards both, apt-get and dselect know about the new
packages.

Martin


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