Re: [LUNI] apt-get and recommended packages

From: chamster (chamster@acorn.he.net)
Date: Sat Mar 24 2001 - 16:25:15 CST

  • Next message: Douglas Trainor: "[LUNI] Microsoft warns of impostor who obtained digital certificates"

    On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Martin Maney wrote:

    > On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:32:42AM -0800, chamster wrote:
    > > I've been wondering about this also. It's one of the things that I miss
    > > from dselect. It would automatically tell you of any recommended
    > > packages as soon as you selected a particular package and allow you to
    > > select them right away.
    >
    > You do know that you can use dselect with the apt engine, right? It's my
    > preferred way to do most things (although "apt-get install that-package" has
    > its points).

    Yes (I only use dselect with apt.) What I meant was that quickly seeing
    and then installing recommended packages all at once was a feature of
    dselect that I found missing in just using apt-get. Actually, I don't know
    why dselect has such a bad rep. Extremely useful from an informative sense
    in package installation or just plain package browsing.

    Steve

    -=-
    Linux Users Of Northern Illinois: General Discussion Mailing list.
    For unsubscription, archives, and announcements only see http://luni.org



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Mar 24 2001 - 16:30:59 CST

  •