Re: aptitude rather than dselect for Woody, Please?
Joey Hess wrote:
> Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > Has it been discussed already? I'd really love to see aptitude
> > rather than dselect in Woody! It's working really well these days;
> > has not segv'd in several months. dselect has finally been outdone!
>
> Does it handle installs from multi-cd sets correctly? I have thought
> about offering console-apt/deity as an option, but was told it still had
> problems in that area.
>
> I'd love to offer an option, but it needs to be mature and more
> user-friendly than dselect. And we're mere days away from freezing base.
The other problem with console-apt is that it has no way to recognize
dpkg --set-selections settings. Since tasksel uses that to mark what
packages are selected, it really needs to be supported by the secondary
package selector. Of course dselect supports it.
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