Re: How to handle new packages

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Steve Preston writes ("Re: How to handle new packages"):
> [Ian Jackson:]
> > If you just want to tell dselect about it, rather than installing it,
> > you can say `dpkg --update-avail foobar*.deb', but it seems rather
> > silly just to do this by hand :-).
> 
> But suppose that foobar requires other packages.  Wouldn't it then
> make sense to do the --update-avail, then go into dselect to see what
> other packages I may have to install as well.  Then, if I either don't
> have or don't want these other packages or don't have the disk space or
> whatever, I can just forget about installing foobar.

Yes.

Ian.