UnKnown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi people, got a little problem, I inherit a computer on my shob its a > testing machine so it originally had sid installed upgraded from > woody.
...huh? Which one is it? If it's "woody upgraded to sid" it's probably an unstable machine, not testing. > The problem is that im not the only admin and the other one only use > apt-get to install and remove packages, I, on the other hand, only > use dselect to install and remove, and apt-get to update and > upgrade. Okay; those should work together fine. > The problem is that when ever I use dselect to install something a > bunch of thing drop to be installed which I didnt ask for. What sort of things are they? Historically, dselect has treated package 'Recommends:' as though they were strong dependencies. I think this is still the case, but now it's possible to de-select the extra packages without dselect complaining. You might look at aptitude instead; its interface is somewhat similar to dselect's, but things like automatic installation of suggested and recommended packages are configurable. > I belived that there was no problem using both apt-get and dselect, > and that dselect would respect whatever apt-get would do, and with > apt-get u wouldn't mess the things when u install a package. apt-get, aptitude, and dselect are all fine ways to install packages. apt-get is generally held to have several deficiencies as a general-purpose package management tool: you need to know the name of a specific package to install it, it's difficult to adjust its conflict resolution, and it completely ignores suggests and recommends in the package listing. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
