On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ian Jackson wrote: > * You have to figure out the dependencies yourself. dpkg will stop > you getting it wrong, but it won't tell you easily how to get it right > and you don't get the right packages downloaded automatically. This > is a deficiency shared by dselect and apt, I believe.
APT 4 has support for mixing unstable/stable packages at quite a fine level. You can for instance use just python 2 from stable. This support filters up to dselect, but you cannot change the selection from the dselect GUI. Please see a past mail of mine to -devel if you are interested in how that works, it was linked to by a DWN some time ago. Jason
