Yo! Thank's for your reply and your suggestions, there's a lot there for me to take into consideration and I am now going to make a new installation from scratch.
A few comments: ^chewie wrote: > [snip] > On to the meat of the suggestion. First, we need better details about > why you think Debian is a "mess"....[snip] I never said *Debian is a mess*, my installations turned out to end up being a total mess is what I meant. [snip] > There's an added advantage of being able to install a smaller set > of packages at a time, allowing yourself more intimate knowledge > of the packages themselves and the success or failure of their > installation. You are right, that's how I've made my best Linux installations. [snip] > 5. Realize up front that package installations WILL fail from time to > time. > > Expecting this up front will save you a bit of a headache. I've been a Linux user long enough to know that a failed package installation is *almost* as common as those that are 100% successful...:-/ > > 6. Report to this email list your SPECIFIC concerns. > > We really can't help out with requests like the one you put forth. > Sorry, but we're not mind-readers Perhaps you didn't notice that I had only one question: >> Are there bugs in dselect? I got a reply from Henrique: Yes, see <http://bugs.debian.org/dselect> Thank's again. Regards, Helgi Örn
