[plug] Debian broken

[Adam Hewitt]

On 01/05/2007, at 1:30 PM, Andrew Furey wrote:

> On 01/05/07, Craig Foster <craig at fostware.net> wrote:
>> I use aptitude...
>>
>> dselect has issues believing kitchen sinks are not vital  
>> dependancy requirements :P
>
> Eh, suit yourself, I too will stick with dselect. One thing I prefer
> is that it also selects dependencies that are Recommended (but of
> course you can deselect them if you want). Aptitude won't, which means
> that (for instance) the default package selections on a sarge install
> won't even select _less_. Hello...?
>
> Andrew
>

Keep in mind that regardless of how well dselect works now, aptitude  
is now the recommended package manager for Debian and as such support/ 
updates/bug fixes etc may not progress in dselect appropriately. I  
also have a recollection of seeing a warning in the dselect  
documentation somewhere that they recommend *not* using dselect  
anymore....although I can't find that atm.

Adam.