On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:23:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:55:48PM +0200, Florian Kulzer was heard to say: > > BTW, I just discovered that aptitude has recently learned a nifty new > > trick, the "why/why-not" command:
[...] > You should also be able to get this info from the install Y/n prompt > by typing "w <package>". Very nice. That is one of the reasons I like aptitude so much: I have easy access to the relevant information about dependency problems whenever I have to make a decision. > The resolver prompt doesn't have this feature > yet because it should probably produce slightly different information. > > You can thank this list for the feature, I got the idea when I noticed > that something like 99% of the questions people have about apt(itude) are > of the form "WTF is this package being installed/removed/not installed?" The next time I hear the tired old "Free software developers only want to scratch their own itches; they never care about the problems of non-geek users" tirade, I can simply refer people to this thread. Thanks. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
