Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-17 Thread John Galt
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

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-17 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Brian Nelson
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

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread Eric G. Miller
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

Re: dselect vs. apt-get

2001-08-16 Thread John Galt
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)

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-09 Thread Jonathan Gift
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'

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
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

Re: dselect vs apt-get

2000-12-08 Thread Defresne Sylvain
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