Re: keep users alert to packages deleted from debian
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:56:44PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:52:44PM +0200, Martin Kuball wrote:
> | Would you like to explain this a little bit? What exactly is the
> | advantage of using a front end over plain apt-get. At least I did not
> | encounter any problems using the apt-get aproach.
>
> 'apt-get {install,upgrade,dist-upgrade}' works as intended. However,
> it has the following limitations :
> . no notification is a package becomes 'obsolete' (removed from
> the package repository)
> . no way to trace dependencies to resolve any
> installation/upgrade issues
> . no way to track what packages are automatically installed
> solely to meet a dependency (and therefore no way to
> automatically remove them if the package depending on it
> is removed)
> . no way to install and remove packages simultaneously (you
> must run apt-get at least twice)
> . no way to browse what packages are available or installed
> . no way to show details for just a specific version of a
> package ('apt-cache show' gives details for all available
> versions)
. when things go wrong, its output can be confusing even to
experts; an interactive dependency resolver is much easier to
follow in practice
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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