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

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>