Re: dselect

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 01:51:53PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 13:38, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Last night I wrote a patch for dselect which implements a "set all
> > selections to currently installed state" keypress; you can find it at
> > <http://bugs.debian.org/151540>. Shout if you think it's useful, as I'm
> > not sure that the dpkg developers agree with me yet.
> 
> I'd like that to be implemented.  After installing and removing software
> using apt-get/dpkg/dselect/aptitute, dselect's view of the universe can
> be quite distorted...

I'm not sure it'd necessarily help as much with the multiple-tools
problem; most of that is due to apt-get having slightly different
constraints than dselect (although dselect 1.10 helps by finally not
being so annoying about Recommends:). It does help when you make a
mistake and then hit Enter though - the existing tools only let you
revert during the same session, which often isn't enough.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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