On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 02:47:31PM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? > > Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? > > Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can > install and uninstall packages, etc. What they were talking about is probably > "dselect" - front-end to dpkg which lists all the packages and let you select > which packages you want to install, uninstall, upgrade, etc. and then > download > and install/uninstall/upgrade everything automatically. > The main problem of dselect is that user intrerface is a bit non-intuitive > and with 1400 packages in archive - a little messy. It does a good job, > though.
My take is that at first, I was a bit turned off by dselect. Now, though, I just use dpkg, and find it simpler, easier, faster, etc... I think dselect is pretty neat-o, but as said above, a bit non-intuitive. I used to be very anti-package management, but dpkg has worked well for me... I've heard a lot of complaints against Red Hat's package manager, though. <shrug> -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
