On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 10:55:47AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:06:38PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > xserver-xfree86 Recommends: xfonts-base - dselect and aptitude should > > handle this correctly. > apt-get did not. No, apt-get is an expert's tool, it's not designed for use by the casual hacker. If you don't know what you're doing, you should stick with aptitude or dselect (preferably aptitude). Otherwise you're going to have this sort of problem over and over again. > i use neither dselect nor aptitude, they are curses / GUI based and > therefore confusing to me. No, both can be used from the command-line like apt-get. The curses-based interface is purely optional. In fact, aptitude can be used as an exact replacement for apt-get. It has all the same commands, plus a few new (and useful) ones. The main difference is that aptitude is smarter, and installs recommended and suggested packages (at least by default -- I configured my copy to ignore suggestions). Also aptitude can remember which packages have been installed as dependencies, so you can say "aptitude install kde", and it will install all 400 KDE-related packages, and if you decide you don't like kde, you can say "aptitude remove kde" and all 400 packages will go away. That feature alone (which dselect does not have) makes aptitude worth the price of admission to me. > surely this is painful, and because it is painful > this issue has not been fixed? It's only painful for those who refuse to use the tools that make it easy. If you insist on using apt-get, when you obviously *don't* know enough to use it properly, expect no sympathy from anyone. Apt-get requires that you check for recommendations manually. If you're not willing to do that, don't use apt-get. It's just that simple. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
