[Gllug] Debian Matching Machines

[Russell Howe]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:00:49AM +0100, Steve Nelson wrote:
> On 4/20/05, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> 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...
> 
> This may be precisely the issue.  When I encountered dselect it was
> certainly pre-potato, and I've not looked at it since.  I am sure it
> has improved hugely - maybe I should give it a go?

hugely? heh. Incrementally I think would be more appropriate :)

Still, it has shed some irritating UI inconsistencies such as the
following:

$ dselect
* Choose [S]elect
[Help page appears]
* Press space to exit
[key command screen appears]
* Press enter to move to package selection screen

I'm not sure it was quite like the above, but it certainly used to
involve switching between pressing enter and space seemingly
arbitrarily!

Highly confusing when the different versions of dselect were installed
on various machines of mine and I had to remember which ones were "enter
all the way" (in true Debian tradition - remember the potato installer?
:) and which were "hit the keyboard until you see the package list".

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