On Friday 23 April 2004 01:22, Nate Duehr wrote: > Jesús Roncero Franco wrote: snip > snip > Just because the userbase tends to use apt-get quite a bit, doesn't mean > it's intelligent enough to do everything, nor has it ever been. I > remember seeing notes from the apt-get developers warning against its > use as a generic tool long ago. > > The warnings about how it does its package dependencies have simply > slipped out of the general consciousness over the past few years. I > still have days running testing on one of the machines here where it > refuses to upgrade something, fire up dselect and it figures out the > dependency problem perfectly and finishes off where apt-get gave up. > > Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What would help a lot if someone with extensive experience of dselect would write a how-to for even recent converts to Debian to be able to figure out how to use it. The popularity of apt-get is its apparent simplicity but its documentation is lacking in explaining its limitations. Barry.
