On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > Actually, this is primarily the reason that I like dselect. That list of > "crap" is all of the recommends and suggests that are present in the > package. A few years ago, I would have said this to be unnecessary, but > with the Debian repository having how many thousands of packages now, > there's really no way to know about all of the cool new things available > all the time. I think the rationale behind it is that if, for example, > you're installing cdrecord, you'd probably also want a front end for it. > apt-get will just install it and then go away. dselect (and I'd imagine > aptitude as well, to give it its fair credit :) will show you xcdroast > because it's suggested by cdrecord.
A perfect example. I don't like xcdroast, I use cdrecord on its own. Most
of the time I want the bare minimum. And a lot of what it wanted to install,
literally, was not what I had asked for. It was trying to upgrade my system,
but I did not want it upgraded at that time, and there didn't seem to be a
good way to tell it to just "do what I say". I don't have that problem with
apt-get.
> Generally speaking, if you just want to install a single package with no
> fuss, or if you want to upgrade all of your packages with no fuss, you
> use apt-get. (I'd also strongly suggest taking a look at apt-listchanges
> for seeing what's new with stuff.) If you want to see what all the new
> available stuff is, then you go with a frontend like dselect or
> aptitude. Personally, I find aptitude very counter-intuitive, but then
> again, this could be due to how I expect things to work in dselect. (I
> felt the same way about dselect when I first started using it. :)
I usually just
apt-get -su upgrade
if I want to see what's available.
Mike
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