Re: Package splitting and upgrades
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:40:16PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > And there's oodles of people who will say that dselect will not cut it by
> > design, either.
>
> There's a difference--dselect's issues are mainly interface issues,
> apt's lack of recommends: is a technical issue. People flee dselect in
> droves because of the (addmittdly) horrid UI, but apt-get upgrade simply
> lacks an interface for handling something that can cause problems if
> ignored.
They're still pretty much equivalent from a user's point of view -- at one
side, not seeing a recommends will cause problems, and at the other side,
seeing too many conflict resolution screens will cause problems. In either
case there's a pretty good chance that a fair percentage of users will be
annoyed at the upgrade process.
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