[Novalug] Ubuntu force patch/update answered
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Sep 25 18:05:43 EDT 2008
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:54:01AM -0400, Ken Kauffman wrote:
>> I am a big fan of apt-get update over the GUI stuff.
>>
>> K
>
> aptitude is even better. and, aiui, recommended for years now.
>
> -Eric Rz.
Believe it or not, I'm still a dselect fan. I like aptitude because it
can sort by package size, but I still haven't grokked its conflict
resolution stuff.
What the whole dpkg/apt (and really, ANY package manager) needs is what
SUSE calls "taboo". Basically, it's a black list of things I NEVER want
to see unless they satisfy a dependency or I edit my Taboo List.
Unfortunately, SUSE (Yast really) doesn't save that flag, so I have to
keep marking the same things over and over again.
JIM
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