[Gllug] Re: dselect

[Benedikt Heinen]

>>> I think the "dselect sucks" FUD is partly a hangover from Debian <2.2
>>> [potato] when it was a more painful, less helpful app to use,
>> I think that Debian has been a great choice, but I still think that dselect 
>> is an abomination to use - it has improved in a few ways, but I still think 
>> that dselect is the Achilles' heel of Debian.
>> 
>> Luckily, it's more than made up for by the presence of apt-get and the huge 
>> number of good software packages available for debian (both in the main 
>> trunk, as well as in independent apt repositories).
> I use have been using aptitude instead of dselect for about 3 years and I've 
> never needed to switch back. Give that a try...

Looked at aptitude, but decided that for most things, apt-get alone is 
easily good enough... ;-)


   Benedikt

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