On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote:
>> >my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either
>> >if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have
>> >recently
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 07:20:03PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote:
> >my question is due dependencies, are they resolved the same way, either
> >if you use apt-get or dselect? or are there any differences. I have
> >recently made the experience that dselect worked on a sp
On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:37:54PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> dselect will generally want to install "Recommends" while apt-get won't.
True.
> I don't know the internals about when things are called. Both seem to
> use their own mechanism for initial dependency resolution and then dpkg
> wi
On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:01:10AM +0200, tim wrote:
> hello
>
> well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a
> comparison.
>
> I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg.
> dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a
> manual dependency
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, tim wrote:
>hello
>
>well I am sorry if this has discussed to death, I didnt find a
>comparison.
>
>I always thought dselect/apt-get are frontend for dpkg.
>dselect uses ncurses, apt-get is only command line. dselect offers a
>manual dependency resolving while apt-get (mainly)
Thanks for the feedback...
> (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch2.html#s2.2). However, it
> only does this up until the first time you exit dselect's "Select"
> screen and accept the choices there. All you should need to do is run
> dselect, turn off all the things it selected for you ('D'
Defresne Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> 3. status of the system and updates
>>
>> are dselect and apt-get's knowledge of installed packages, package status,
>> available packages and provided files the same as each other?
>
> I guess, si
Hello
* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> i've always wondered...
>
>
> 1. equivalency of updating the system
>
> is dselect's "update" EXACTLY equivalent to apt-get update? does one of
> them update the other? if they're not equivalent, how are they different?
If you
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 11:28:25AM +0100, Urban Gabor wrote:
> Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major
> differences between dselect and apt. I do not upgrade my boxes via ftp, I
> allways (more or less :-)) ) wait till the new release is assembled in CD
> images. Why wo
On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 07:23:14AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote
>
>
> Urban Gabor wrote:
> >
> > Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major
> > differences between dselect and apt.
>
> dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based.
> dselect is slightly confusing, and ap
Subject: Re: dselect vs apt
Urban Gabor wrote:
>
> Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major
> differences between dselect and apt.
dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based.
dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty straightforward.
I think xds
Urban Gabor wrote:
>
> Though it might be a lamer question, I would like to know the major
> differences between dselect and apt.
dselect is menu based, and apt is command-line based.
dselect is slightly confusing, and apt is pretty straightforward.
I think xdselect (if there's any such thing
It is your choice. I understand that using apt-cdrom will let you use
entries for apt to read off of CD, but dselect has its nice features too --
eg, you can see multiple packages at a time (not enough for my tastes, but
you really only need it while instlaling.. :)
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