At 11:51 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote: >We are attracting windows users and they >come to us with no linux experience. I tryed >debian a while ago <snip> and became so >frustrated with dselect that I gave up twice.
Exactly true. I used apt-get to install Slink and believe apt-get is excellent. The issue for me is that it needs a top level package selection system. For example. It would be nice to have a category called "mail transport agents" and one called "mail clients". I would browse the list of candidate packages and make my choice. Then apt-get would find all the dependencies and install them. There should also be a top-level package "remove" option that would remove a package and all orphaned dependencies. I'll bring this idea up with the apt-get maintainer but I wanted to let people know that I found apt-get to be much easier to use than dselect. Until I installed apt-get, I had given up on dselect and was simple downloading packages and running dpkg recursively until I got a given package fully installed. Disclaimer: I am a Debian amateur so my comments may be uninformed. -- Copyright(c) 1998 Lyno Sullivan; this work is free and may be copied, modified and distributed under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL) <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html> and it comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
