Re: dselect vs. apt-get
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote:
> >my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either
> >if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have
> >recently made the experience that dselect worked on a specifig update
> >(cdroast) while apt-get gave my dependency problems...
>
> No. For dselect, Suggests are effectively Depends, while for apt,
> Suggests are effectively ignored.
Wibble? Surely you mean Recommends, not Suggests. (dselect will warn you
about Suggests but not force you into using them.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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