On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:29 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then > > Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my "normal tools" > is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using dselect? dpkg > I > can see when installing third party applications (transgaming, for example) > but that's mostly confined to "dpkg -i".
Personally, I think that a program should either be a package MANAGER (dselect, aptitude, synaptic, etc) OR a package TOOL (apt), but NOT both. Leave the downloading and installing bits to apt and friends, and leave the package browsing, etc, to the managers (dselect, etc). I personally use wajig exclusively and am perfectly happy with it. I have no need for aptitude nor any other GUI. (Though I do keep dselect around for sentimental reasons. :) ) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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