Re: A proposal to fix breakage with Essential
Am 29.10.02 um 17:54:33 schrieb Gregory Stark:
> Currently there's no way for users to
> know that the reason packages are randomly failing (often in the configuration
> stage which breaks apt-get) is because they need to run dist-upgrade.
Perhaps those users should then try to use a frontend for their package
maintenance instead of calling the backend directly. apt-get is _not_ a
replacement for dselect or any other of such tools. By default, it
ignores all kinds of things, which is not a bug.
Bye,
Mike
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