Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com> writes:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> > In article <[🔎] 874rop2x8f.fsf@bignachos.com>,
> > Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com> wrote:
> > >Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
> >
> > ROTFLMAO!!
>
> TBH, I get on very well with dselect. I tried using its apt access method
> for a while, but sometimes it would do things wrong (like trying to
> download packages that weren't selected in dselect), and each time I asked
> Ian Jackson WTF dselect/dpkg was up to he'd say that the annoying bit was
> apt's doing. Since switching back to dpkg-ftp it's all become problem-free
> again.
>
> Lots of people seem to like apt and whatever pretty front ends you can get
> for it, so obviously it can't be all that bad, but is dselect/dpkg-ftp's
> future still pretty secure? I hope so, but I'm worried.
dpkg-ftp is considered obsolete. It's been replaced by apt.
> Mind you, one thing I wish would happen is that the system would offer to
> deselect things that were only selected because of a dependency of
> something you just deselected.
That's a tricky task for the system to handle because it can't read
your mind. There are tools like deborphan which find libs (or
anything else) that are no longer depended on.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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