On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:20:03PM -0700, peanut butter wrote: > > > What is the difference between Communicator offered through "contrib" > > > vs. "non-free". Which naturally leads to: is one better > > > than the other? > > > > The communicator package in contrib is a meta package that depends upon > > the real packages in non-free. Rather than downloading and trying to > > install it, let apt-get handle the dependencies for you > > (apt-get install communicator). > > > > Hmmm, ok. What's strange is, using 'apt' with dselect the whole > time, an 'update' and 'install' chose to download and install the > "previously deselected", non-free versions of Communicator thus > creating a conflict (now if I go to 'select', it wants to rectify > this conflict upon exiting). Shouldn't 'apt' with dselect have been > just as good at handling the dependencies as 'apt-get'? And now > that I have the conflict, should I let 'select's resolution of > removing the non-free packages prevail?
I find that as time goes by (I've been a Debian user for over four years), I use dselect less and less. Often it will want to remove packages and the dependency/conflict screens don't really seem to explain what it is doing or why.
