Re: dselect?

[Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>]

On Friday 29 October 2004 08:30 pm, Jules Dubois wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:46:22 +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> > Is there any other tool that can do such the things that dselect
> > can do.
>
> I think 'aptitude' is the most powerful package manager available.  I
> recommend it.
>
> > If there is graphic tool, that would be better.
>
> Synaptic.  It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled
> something like "9 reasons to use aptitude instead of apt-get".

apt-get will not install recommends or suggests, nor offer a way to do 
it. Dselect, I like it, or aptitude will offer to install/satisfy 
depends. I have never used synaptic.

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Greg C. Madden