Re: dselect survey (Was: Bug#282283: RFH: dselect -- a user tool to manage Debian packages)
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:12:07PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> dselect has made too many mistakes on me. Perhaps if I did not mix and
> match using dselect with apt-get, it would have worked out alright, but
> go behind dselect's back and it gets very unhappy.
Strange; I've had exactly the reverse experience, as have a number of
people I know. apt-get demands that your entire system is consistent
(using, apparently, a slightly different definition of consistent to
dselect, judging empirically from comments by users of both), and fails
in confusing ways if it is not. When using the older acquisition methods
at least, dselect tolerates some inconsistency.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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