Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

From: Jules Dubois (990rcb502_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 04/24/04

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Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:52:02 -0600

    In article <20040421022712.GB18995@kitenet.net>, on Tue, 20 Apr 2004
    22:27:12 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

    > Nine reasons why you should be using aptitude instead of apt-get or
    > dselect.
    > [snip]

    I keep hearing about the advantages of aptitude (over, for example,
    Synaptic), but your article, Mr. Hess, was excellent. I gave aptitude
    another try last night and most of my earlier problems with it are gone.

    Libranet decided a few months ago to modify my sources.list to use
    unstable instead of testing. I'm now finding there are about 50 packages
    I can't upgrade because of unsatisfied dependencies.

    aptitude shows these packages as 'Broken' so I've changed their status to
    'Hold' because I want to keep them.

    I hope you'll consider these questions.

    1) If I don't want to remove packages simply because the upgrade
       path is currently broken, is it safe to remove the 'Hold' and leave
       them as 'Broken'?

    2) If I can find some combination of packages which resolves the
       unsatisfied-dependency conditions, is it safe to install these?

    By 'safe' above, I mean only 'my system won't die a horrible, flaming
    death', not 'the packages are completely secure and bug-free'. 

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