Get apt from slink and use the apt method in dselect. You should notice a few improvements.
On 19-Oct-98 Erik Forsberg wrote: > When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local > nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's > skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) > > I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just > install the packages I've asked for, and quit. Without taking half a > year listing all availiable packages. > > Am I wrong ? Where do I RTFM ?