Re: http://www.debian.org/contact
Greg Wooledge <wooledge@kellnet.com> writes:
> > > > Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what
> > > > *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove
> >
> > ...unfortunately console-apt simply isn't a sufficient replacement
> > for dselect without this feature (in some form or another; maybe it
> > could be less whizzy than dselect's, but it's gotta be there).
>
> This works:
>
> jekyll# apt-get -s install ae
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> slang1=20
> 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded.
> Inst ae []
> Inst slang1
> Conf slang1
> Conf ae
It doesn't have to be *exactly* like dselect, but it certainly has to be
more like dselect than that!
Cheers,
-Miles
--
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
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