No day without questions or complaints about the debian package system. Yesterday it was Hugo van der Merwe. A couple of more or less random selected lines from his message: > ... some easy way to sync the selections with > what is currently installed ... > I admit to not have researched this properly ...
Each new user has to do his own research, has to make many mistakes. I think this is a ridiculous situation. It seems to be a policy of the debian-in-group not to talk about the mechanism behind the package system: files that are being read or written are hardly mentioned in the user documentation. Looks like they adhere to the data hiding principle. What we need is a HOWTO-like document that explains everything about the files in the background: which file is read or written or updated in what way when you use any option or command. For instance what happens when you do a 'dselect update' with the apt access method. Or what happens or does not happen when you hit any of the action keys while in a dselect dependency screen. Not to mention all the dpkg options. Is there anybody who understands all (or most) of it and can write a decent howto ? egbert -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 ========================================================================
