Just take my comments as a wish list for the future, I know this stuff is still alpha grade (but still very usefull). Nice thing about debian is that it not only has a bullet resistant package manager (not bullet proof as per some of the slink->potato upgrade horror stories I've been reading), but several different front ends. Gnome-apt looks good too, (but has a bug in that the 'terminal window' that shows the 'action' goes black after one screenfull scrolls up).
I installed potato from scratch on a computer via the web (had to install the 'base' from floppies 'cause I couldn't get apt to use a proxy at first to see though a firewall) but got the rest via apt-get, dselect, gnome-apt, and aptitude. (can mixing package manager frontends screw up things?) Anyway it is LOOKING GOOD! Goodluck with the un-freeze process! --- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:07:29AM -0800, Kenneth > Scharf was heard to say: > > I've been following this list (on and off) as I > have > > been using potato and uploading updated pacakges > > daily. I didn't even know about aptitude until I > read > > about it here, so I went and got it. Except for > the > > lack of a man page, --help option, or online key > > binding key it is a neat program. > > (/me cops out by pointing at the two zeros in > front of the version number) > > > What gets me is that aptitude, apt-get, deselect, > and gnome-apt all > > seem to give slightly different info on which > packages > > are broken, will be deleted, or are on hold. Are > the > > dependancy rules interperted differently between > these > > programs? > > dselect probably uses a totally different > algorithm from the others > > As for the apt-based programs: there are a number > of > > > Also how do you undo the result of the "f" key. > > You can't undo the 'f' key in the most recently > released version. Undo > support is sort of in CVS, but I need to fix it > before I release 0.0.7 > version. (and I have two major school projects due > in the near future, so it's > unlikely to happen soon (read: in the next week) :( > ) > > > Anyway if someone adds an online help key to > aptitude > > it would make a great replacement for deselect. > > (Looks great in color). > > The most recent version (0.0.6a, missed the potato > freeze) has online help, > although it's not very friendly (I just used the > README) 0.0.7 is mainly > a large amount of internal restructuring and > bugfixes and the addition of undo > support. 0.0.8 will hopefully address a number of > issues which have been > brought up in the last few days. > > Daniel > > -- > The New Testament offers the basis for modern > computer coding theory, > in the form of an affirmation of the binary number > system. > > But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, > nay: > for whatsoever is more than these cometh of > evil. > -- Matthew 5:37 > ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
