From 4bca852015e95a36fddfba4b8874f2666da3c2ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:01:40 +0100 Subject: do not recommend dselect in apt-get manpage The current description says: "Many users find dselect intimidating and new users may prefer to use apt-based user interfaces." It doesn't feel right to refer users to it then. Closes: 617625 --- doc/apt-get.8.xml | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/apt-get.8.xml b/doc/apt-get.8.xml index b97bc268e..595ea875d 100644 --- a/doc/apt-get.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-get.8.xml @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description apt-get is the command-line tool for handling packages, and may be considered the user's "back-end" to other tools using the APT - library. Several "front-end" interfaces exist, such as &dselect;, + library. Several "front-end" interfaces exist, such as &aptitude;, &synaptic; and &wajig;. Unless the , or option is given, one of the @@ -217,10 +217,7 @@ clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from &cachedir;/archives/ and - &cachedir;/archives/partial/. When APT is used as a - &dselect; method, clean is run automatically. - Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean - from time to time to free up disk space. + &cachedir;/archives/partial/. @@ -284,7 +281,7 @@ running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention - (which usually means using &dselect; or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of + (which usually means using dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Fix-Broken. @@ -548,7 +545,7 @@ See Also - &apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &dselect;, &sources-list;, + &apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &sources-list;, &apt-conf;, &apt-config;, &apt-secure;, The APT User's guide in &guidesdir;, &apt-preferences;, the APT Howto. -- cgit v1.2.3