I was wondering what Suggested/Recommended packages I was missing by not having dselect point them out to me. I use apt-get exclusively. So, a quick hack later and here are the results. The following (poorly written) perl script Tries to figure out which other packages you might want to install on your system. Usage: ./debsuggests.pl |less If you want to see it working, try './debsuggests.pl -v |less'. It takes under 4 seconds to run on my P90 (250 packages), and less than 2 on on my Dual Celeron 500 (550 packages). The only real slow part is the version comparing, which is done by ``dpkg --compare-versions''. (The perl code was getting too ugly.) In the unlikely event that someone else might find this useful, I'm posting it here. My only claim is that ``It Works For Me(tm)''. Damian -- Damian Gryski ==> dgryski@uwaterloo.ca | Linux, the choice of a GNU generation 512 pt Hacker Test score = 37% | 500 pt Nerd Test score = 56% geek / linux zealot / coder / juggler
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