On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:15:48 -0700 (MST)
Bruce Sass <bsass@edmc.net> wrote:
> I would say persistent rather than retarded.
Retarded. The machine is not more intelligent than I am.
> 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...
I prefer going into aptitude's configuration and telling it to not select
suggests and recommends automatically. If I want a package installed *I* will
install it. If it isn't required it has no business being on the machine
unless I expressly put it there. The tools should be able to conform to that
preference. If they can not, they are retarded, not persistent.
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