Re: Install

[Daniel Burrows <dnb114@psu.edu>]

On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> was heard to say:
> I think aptitude in its present state is significantly more useful than
> dpkg in its, and while Daniel says there's things dselect can do that
> aptitude can't, I apparently don't use them, and don't miss them (I
> suspect it's in the area of handling certain types of package sources,
> rather than UI issues.)

  Just for clarification: the major missing feature in aptitude is a
decent missing-dependency resolution screen.

  Daniel

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