Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 05:03, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:31, cr wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 September 2003 03:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:40:14 +0200, cr wrote:
> > > > ... having just recovered from another screaming encounter with dselect.
> > >
> > > One word: aptitude
> >
> > Thanks, I'll bear 'aptitude' in mind (though I tend to be lazy and use
> > kpackage wherever possible), but dselect is the app written into the
> > installer.
> >
> > dselect is actually not so bad on a one-app basis, it's trying to use it to
> > select all the apps for an install where it rapidly gets old. ;)
>
> Call me weird, but unless I'm only installing one or two packages (which
> I'll just use apt-get to do) I think dselect is the best tool for the
> job. It lets you see recommended and suggested packages while
> automatically showing you which dependencies need to be installed. It's
> also the only really "intuitive" package manager I've found. It took me
> about 2 hours of playing with it to understand it. I've tried aptitude
> and a few of the available GUI frontends (though I admit I've never
> tried kpackage) and even after 2 hours I just can't get the hang of 'em.
> Though I know of QUITE a few people who absolutely swear by aptitude.
> Personally, I couldn't be happier with dselect. :)
apt-get and aptitude also show 'suggests' and 'recommends' packages.
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