[Gllug] Re: dselect

[Stephen Harker]

Benedikt Heinen wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Joel Bernstein wrote:
>> 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...

Steve

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