[Gllug] Debian

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 28 Aug 2001, Rob Andrews wrote:
>dselect is, imho, a necessary evil. It's useful to know when packages become
>obsolete - quite frequently there are old orphaned libraries left stale on
>the machine. libgnomeprint* was a sod for that. One thing to note is that
>doing an "apt-get update; dselect" isn't the same as running dselect and
>selecting "2. [U]pdate" - the latter updates dselect's "available"
>information, and hence you get lots of useful information.

Apt is very handy, but ultimately fails to understand the Debian
packaging system; one of the reasons it so often invokes dpkg with
--force-fuck-my-system is its failure to manipulate the desired states
of packages correctly.

Fixing this would be an interesting project.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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