[Glastonbury] Installing packages

[nick irwin]

On Thursday 14 Aug 2003 14:57, Tim Hall wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> I think the Debian apt-get system works very well.
> personally I use dselect, not everyone's choice admittedly. It takes a
> little getting used to, but beyond that is relatively simple. I have hardly
> ever had to worry about dependancy issues, You just choose the software you
> want, it downloads it and sets it up for you in one go (more or less), and
> you generally have a working program, which runs from a newly updated menu
> entry. It's pretty smart.
>
> It has to be said, Debian IS a bitch to configure (not always... [pauses
> for Martin to notice the troll-baiting]) Personally I'm happy with editing
> text files in vi, and I'm coming to prefer it, but it's not everyone's
> favourite. The positive side is that once it's set up properly it stays
> that way.

Yeah the configuring thing is my one reason for holding back, its not that I 
mind editing files, its that you have to know which files to edit and how the 
syntax looks etc.
As you know Mandrake has a wizard for everything which makes it easy, so I 
guess it comes down to which is more important, being able to install a 
program in less than a day or being able to make system configuration changes 
in less than a day.

Well thanks for your advice (including Andrew), I guess I'll just have to try 
it and see.

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Nick Irwin
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