begin Michael Marziani quotation: > I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I heard > dselect can be more effective once it's mastered.
dselect has a rather odd UI, but it's a very effective tool, with just one little exception... > ... but when I try to un-select > something that recommends another package, it won't let me unless I > remove the other package, which in some cases is something I already > have installed. ... and that exception is that it has a bug that causes it to treat "recommends" as "depends". Once you've got your system in a state that dselect is happy with, you won't run into this often, but it is annoying when you do. There isn't really a good workaround, although you can use the equivs package to make dummy versions of packages, which you can then install to get dselect to shut up about them. Craig
