On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 10:44:28PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > Right, it is not having a clearly marked button that drives many of > today's users into fits. They did not read the docs so they do not know > that R means Revert if they get thrown into conflict resolution and a > bunch of packages get marked for removal and that Q will take them back to > where they were in the selection menu without rechecking for conflicts. > > Basicly it is a program that you must read ALL of the instructions for > before using and it and it expects you to have done so. It is NOT a > program you can "figure out" as you "go along".
True true true, but I can't help but still feel that the dselect interface is pretty bad. It's like trying to use "info"--an emacs-ish program that doesn't follow the emacs keystroke conventions very well. Info could be as simple as lynx, but certainly isn't. Something so vital to the system as dselect shouldn't need to be so cryptic. A system can get really screwed up by a few inadvertent keys. I think a lot of dselect is great, but too much of it is counter-intuitive. Just an opinion, though. Robbie
