On Thursday 08 December 2005 13:17, Matej Cepl was heard to say: > If you still use dselect, do not complain -- I do not have mercy > for those who try to commit suicide and then complain that it hurts > :-).
Interesting. Yet I find aptitude so cumbersome, and tasksel so arbitrary, that they are useless to me. If I may burden this list with one more irrelevancy, what do you find "suicidal" about dselect? > > The fonts still don't show up in the xlsfonts list. > > Actually, why do you need it in xlsfonts? I mean, which of the > tools you use are not dependent on fontconfig anyway? I have no clue. I was following the lead of the first person who posted about it. I do find it interesting that this xlsfonts is installed and seems to be working, but does not see all the fonts installed. But then, I have no idea what xlsfonts does, where it's used, etc. One major reason for my admiration of the Debian package maintainers is that following their dependencies tends to make a working system. I don't have need to know what every different tool does, nor do I need to worry that tons of stuff I have no use for is going to be installed. That is one reason I eschew tasksel after having tried it once. Ouch! Curt- -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
