On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 09:36:21AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Brian Nelson did speaketh: > > > What if you want to honor a package's "Recommends" field with apt-get? > > That'll take some extra effort that isn't necessary with aptitude. Or > > what if you want to automatically remove the dependencies a package > > pulled in when you delete that package? Pretty tricky to do with > > apt-get. Also, apt-get cannot provide user interaction to resolve a > > tricky conflict and instead will just give up, leaving the user confused > > as to what went wrong. > > Unfortunately I find the interface to aptitude so mystifying that it > leaves me confused as to how to use it. It always seemed kinda logical...A tree of trees, with the packages as leaves. Hit enter on a package to see more detail about it; you can see it's dependencies (and modify them), see which versions are available and select them, etc, etc...Sure beats dselect, at least :) -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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