On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:28 -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 2:16 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > That's why "we" don't like aptitude. It too aggressively removes > > things. > > Would the almighty Debian Gods decide which fraking package manager 'we' are > supposed to use? I have seem countless times on this list that apt-get is > deprecated, synaptic is no good, and aptitude is the only one that can before > 'dist-upgrade' correctly. Point of clarity: in this case, "we" doesn't mean "everybody", it means, "those of us who don't like aptitude". As for me, I 'upgrade' and manually install the hold-backs. > > If things like this trip you up, don't use meta-packages. > > A meta-package ensures that changes to the official > 'gnome-desktop-environment' specification are automatically added or removed > appropriately as time progresses. It also ensures that libraries that need > not be needlessly updated because they are marked auto, are not. > > When packages are marked manual, they are upgraded immediately upon > availability of a newer version rather than waiting for the next meta-package > reference to require it. > > > That won't happen if you use apt-get, and install apps manually. > > You loose the benefits of the above. Point taken about the g-d-e spec. Unsure what you mean about "libraries that need not be needlessly updated", though. > > Look at the gnome-desktop-environment and then "# apt-get install" > > the ones you want, or install everything except that which you > > don't want. > > apt-get install is supposedly deprecated. They'll tear apt-get out of my cold, dead hands. [snip] > > > Maybe it's because I'm running sid, use apt-get and already have > > sound-juicer installed, but this command only removes sound-juicer: > > > > # apt-get remove sound-juicer > > According to the dep tree, it's only because you have not installed g-d-e. Absolutely! > > > Because stable is too old for a desktop. And unstable is too new for a > > > desktop. Testing is just right (usually). > > > > In your opinion. IMNSHO, unstable is a good desktop. > > Unless unstable happens to be going through an ABI change and you don't want > to babysit upgrades. It's not as bad as you think. A little 'experimental' bravery and you can have OO.o2, too. And I've had GNOME 2.10 for months, now. The nerim mplayer being dependent on slang1 instead of libslang1 is a pain, though. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Temporarily not of Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue." Robert L. Weber, Science With a Smile (1992)
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