Re: Package splitting and upgrades

[Mark Eichin <eichin@thok.org>]

> Maybe aptitude is better.  Maybe someone has to write a better command-line

Speaking as someone who used dselect just enough for it to hurt and
then wrote a handful of wrapper scripts, and then dropped those
wrapper scripts when apt came around, and do manual apt-get upgrade/
apt-get install -u / apt-cache show passes on my Unstable machines on
a near daily basis:  I *like* aptitude.  It needs a bunch of UI
finetuning, and I'm stuck not being able to use it on my
most-bleeding-edge machine right now because it wants to much to Fix
things (and it can't, libgdgeda1 as a "new" package hasn't actually
hit the archive yet, and aptitude can't resolve that) but the "new
packages" category is almost as useful as the DWN for finding new
stuff :-)

I'd probably like a command-line readline-ish variant too, if it did a
similar set of things, but I'm not sure I'd *recommend* it to others;
aptitude I find worth recommending...

			_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
			The Herd of Kittens
			Debian Package Maintainer