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Re: Woody: Making apt-get follow recommendations & suggestions



On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 04:01:12PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 09:21, Colin Watson wrote:
> > apt-get was never designed for this sort of thing - it's not a full
> > frontend. I understand aptitude does indeed take recommendations and
> > suggestions into account.
> 
> Not entirely true.  apt-get does have an interface to dselect so that it
> can use dselect to upgrade all your packages and install recommends or
> suggests.  Use:
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
> and man apt-get for a slightly better explanation(I think)

Sure, but you still have to use dselect to do the actual selection of
packages; I had the impression the original poster didn't want that.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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