On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Fish Smith wrote: dyson_ >>There are two really horrible things about Debian, dyson_ >>though. 1) The dyson_ >>dselect dyson_ >>package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. dyson_ >>It has a very dyson_ >>primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe dyson_ >>they're doing dyson_ >>something different in potato. dyson_ > dyson_ >I don't use dselect. I manually download all the dyson_ >packages and install and remove them with dpkg from dyson_ >the command line. Works fine for me, although it is a dyson_ >bit of a pain for packages with lots of dependencies dyson_ >to look up and grab all of them individually. Still, dyson_ >the interface I've found far easier than dselect. dyson_ >
Just to compare .. im doing a freebsd 3.2 install (for the first time) and i gotta say, i'd take dselect over this crap ANYDAY, it keeps telling me there is a broken package, and waits for me to hit enter, at least dselect installs everything it can then lets you go back and fix the errors later. with all this shit to install i dont want to watch over this install for the next 2 hours.. and i also did an irix 6.3 install recently, dselect is a dream compared to that as well. but in the end dselect has really no real connection to the package format ..you can use any front end you want(i.e. corel's) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 2:10am up 134 days, 14:05, 3 users, load average: 1.86, 1.66, 1.57
