Re: Bug#106566: ITP: apt-howto -- a detailed manual for apt features
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > Ok, but that should probably be apt-howto-en | apt-howto-pt
> > in that order. Otherwise `apt-get install apt-howto` will
> > install apt-howto-pt by de fault, and that might not be what you
> > want.
> Here's my 2c for the apt-howto-faq:
> Q1: How do I install the apt-howto?
> A1: Use dselect.
<smirk>
I've already suggested to Gustavo that the apt-howto ought to be made
available somewhere on www.debian.org, so that people don't have to know the
Debian packaging system in order to find the documentation about it, but I
have no idea how to go about getting it there.
Notwithstanding your plea that people should learn dselect, I've never had
particularly pleasant experiences working with said tool; and were it not for
the issues of recommends: and suggests: relationships, I probably wouldn't
have occasion to use it at all. There are many situations in which I find the
commandline tools (in spite of their deficiencies) far preferable to a
full-screen app such as dselect, and I think the apt-howto is targetted
towards people who share that particular bias of mine.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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