Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> There's one problem: dselect is retarded WRT "Recommends". That is,
<...>
> you. Annoying. Fortunately, you can tell dselect "No really, I want
> you to not install package foo" by typing 'Q' to exit the resolution
> screen, but it's still a PITA.
I would say persistent rather than retarded.
Dselect works best if you have a good grasp of the packaging system,
and consequently know when to use "Q" or "X" and when to fall back to
dpkg -i...
- Bruce
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