On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 06:43, Ron Johnson wrote: --snip-- > > 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. I believe that apt-get only recently started showing suggests and recommends. I know that when I first started using Debian a couple of years ago, apt-get would just go about its business without bothering you with any real questions or suggestions. And my comments about dselect were not meant to be exclusive of other package managers. Every good package manager will show you suggests and recommends, I just tend to prefer the way that dselect does it for my own personal use. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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