Does anyone know if there are plans to make console-apt deal with presenting dependency information to the user in a way analogous to that of dselect?
Right now, the UI basically seems to ignore such information, and depends on apt-get (or the equivalent library) to `automatically' make everything kosher, but this behavior is *really dangerous*. I managed to screw up my system by deleting just a few packages, and it took dselect to fix things. Dselect's behavior -- detecting dependencies and conflicts, and confirming them with the user *as soon as he tries to mark a package for addition/removal* is infinitely easier to deal with. It presents any unintended consequences in a very concise and easily digested way, and makes it very easy to cancel the action if they are too severe. I agree with those who say that dselect is a bit clunky; console-apt is at least a lot prettier (having the entire screen available for showing the package list is great -- just changing dselect to do that would be a great improvement!). But as it stands, it seems too dangerous to use except for the simplest changes... -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
