On 4/7/2000, 1:41:56 PM, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: no wonder...: > Richard Taylor wrote: > > On 4/6/2000, 9:03:41 PM, Oki DZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: > > > On 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > No wonder people say that Debian is the most difficult > > > > Unix-clone distro to install and use... > > > ... > > > > Another thing, is the dselect program: it is quite > > > > difficult to use... > > As compared to something like... say... notepad? > > What's difficult about selecting things from a menu? > 1. Nothing's difficult about selecting things from a menu. It's when those selections > bring up other screens wanting to add/delete other things, which affect other things, > which makes the user want to get out, and none of the keystrokes seem to work like a > beginner (not someone who has read the docs and EXPERIENCED the experience) would > expect. There's just a host of things that are difficult about deselect and apt. My mileage varies. I find that the program simplifies what can be a vastly more difficult process... that of tracking dependencies, versions, file locations, etc, etc... It does it fairly well and it does it accurately. The docs are readily available... the explanations of what, why and so forth in regards to the files your working with are fairly clear... the program itself is pretty simple and requires you to use maybe a half dozen commands in normal use. It does everything for you. If there's any part of Debian I'd target as being difficult it certainly wouldn't be dselect. Personally, I think it's one of the best things the distribution's got going for it. > There's a host of good about these products also; they're just not intuitive for the > non-initiated. What could be more intuitive?
