Re: dselect?

From: Greg Madden (gomadtroll_at_gci.net)
Date: 10/30/04

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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 22:21:37 -0800

    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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