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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2014-02-12 15:01:40 +0100 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2014-02-14 00:45:10 +0100 |
| commit | 4bca852015e95a36fddfba4b8874f2666da3c2ff (patch) | |
| tree | 90976c29b2a16099d6667d2e1ea8d8b3cb700846 /doc/apt-get.8.xml | |
| parent | 52090faab4401ad6a2acb4d2c0c2cb53aa6b8f7f (diff) | |
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
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-get.8.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-get.8.xml | 11 |
1 files 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 @@ <refsect1><title>Description</title> <para><command>apt-get</command> 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;.</para> <para>Unless the <option>-h</option>, or <option>--help</option> option is given, one of the @@ -217,10 +217,7 @@ <listitem><para><literal>clean</literal> clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from <filename>&cachedir;/archives/</filename> and - <filename>&cachedir;/archives/partial/</filename>. When APT is used as a - &dselect; method, <literal>clean</literal> is run automatically. - Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run <literal>apt-get clean</literal> - from time to time to free up disk space.</para></listitem> + <filename>&cachedir;/archives/partial/</filename>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>autoclean</option></term> @@ -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 <command>dpkg --remove</command> to eliminate some of + (which usually means using <command>dpkg --remove</command> to eliminate some of the offending packages). Use of this option together with <option>-m</option> may produce an error in some situations. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Fix-Broken</literal>.</para></listitem> @@ -548,7 +545,7 @@ </refsect1> <refsect1><title>See Also</title> - <para>&apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &dselect;, &sources-list;, + <para>&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.</para> </refsect1> |