On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:33:19PM +1000, David Pastern wrote: > Ben said: > > excellent advice. in fact, i found myself in an involuntary chuckle before i > got to the end of it. it's great to read that someone whose cunning (welches > wissen (?)) i respect has the same opinion of dselect and tasksel. maybe the > banishing of those two crapapples would help demystify debian for many more > tentative users. > > ben > > I'll put my 2 bobs worth in here: > > I disagree to some extent with your comments Ben. Both tasksel and debconf > are tools. Nothing more and nothing less. What you are saying is you don't > like tools, and would rather do things the hard way (I agree generally > better, you learn more and more reliable than an auto tool - I admit that).
Actually, I don't think that's what Ben is saying. If my telepathy's working properly this morning, he's saying he wants better and more co-operative tools. aptitude is the usual candidate here, since it's shaping up to be able to replace both dselect and tasksel. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
