[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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