Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
Hello,
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@daldata.no>:
> > On 11 Nov 1998q, Jiri Baum wrote:
> > > Hello Zack Brown <zbrown@lynx.neu.edu>,
> > >
> > > > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete
> > > > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no'
...
> > > Well, once you've installed them, you usually don't need them any more.
...
> > Can you clarify this please? I thought this choice was the equivalent of
> > dpkg --remove. I've never dared use it again since it once started removing all
> > kinds of things I had installed.
> >
>
> dselect deletes the package files. You don't need those unless you
> plan on reinstalling the same packages again. Most people don't
> need that unless they have several machines.
You might also want them if you plan on playing around with the
unstable distribution - keep the stable deb files somewhere in case
you need to downgrade.
Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
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