Yet another package manager

Michael Hipp Michael
Fri Dec 24 09:56:48 PST 2004


David Bandel wrote:

> I personally don't use apt-get often, I find the older dselect gives
> me more options.  You can purge (or not) configuration files, and when
> you upgrade, you get the new configuration file if you need it (or ask
> for it) otherwise, the old config is dealt with (or just used).

I'm not sophisticated enough yet to use dselect or dpkg. Just forcing 
myself to do *everything* at the command line is a teeth grinder for a 
recovering Windows Weenie like me.

Michael


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