On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:23:16PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:11:31AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > > > I used dselect a lot back in the day (I don't know, like up until 2000 > > or so?). It had a clunky but useable interface (though I fully > > understand how newbies could get frustrated), and generally worked all > > right until there was a problem; > > Maybe I'm still waiting for my first real problem to show up, but I > generally find dselect to be a real pleasure to use. > > Could you present an example of a problem you had with dselect? Honestly, > I wouldn't be using Debian today if not for dselect, which I see as being > a really nice selling point.
If you really want to find out, go ask on debian-user. You'll find plenty of people more than willing to piss all over dselect. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you!