Re: Debian/PPC

[Kevin Puetz <puetzk@iastate.edu>]

mmporter@home.com said:
> Oh no, don't use dselect...it's evil.  If you were using apt then it
> would have held back gcc/g++ and friends for lack of the new binutils
> (which is easily obtained from experimental if you want it to work).

Does apt have a way to list packages and details? If so I haven't found it 
yet... dpkg -l works, but I can only use -I on a package after I've downloaded 
it... somehow dselect has all this info though. I mostly use apt-get, but in 
this case used dselect (under the apparently mistaken assumption that they are 
the same subsystem).