[Gllug] 2.4.15

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 26 Nov 2001, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>Odd. dselect was one of the few redeeming features of Debian in my
>eyes. Despite Debian poeple claiming dpkg to be vastly superior to
>RPM, I'd always seen them as mostly equivalent (yes, there are a few
>differences here and there, but nothing major). But dselect was what
>really sold me on Debian's packaging system, not dpkg.

Yes. I think what a lot of the people who dislike dselect ignore is
that no other distribution has anything like it.

Dselect could be a lot better, though; but I think the right thing
would be to make improvements to dselect, not throw the whole thing
away.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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