On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:27, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:35, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > > I was trying to figure out why xsane was dumping core, > > and fiddling with package selections using dselect, > > and now dselect wants to uninstall most of the packages: > > DO NOT USE dselect! I would have to disagree with this. I use apt-get (well, wajig to be precise) to do upgrades, but dselect to do managed dist-upgrades. dselect will actually show me what depends on what and let me take care of it sanely. And it has the nifty little feature of showing you what's new so that you don't miss cool new packages that might have been added since your last upgrade. > Other than refreshing available... dselect is dead for me !!! Sorry to hear it. I find dselect to be a great tool. I don't use it nearly as much as I used to, but I still start it up at least once a month to do a dist-upgrade and check out what's new. The rest of the time I just use wajig. (I need to send a Graham Williams a big THANK YOU packet or something one of these days. :) -- 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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