On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 03:36:35AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple. > Though, from what I understand, I'm more likely to get odd, unbelieving, > cross-eyed glances than "Me too's!" for that. :)
Actually, I know what you mean. > But for just installing or finding a single package, I really don't see > the point in starting up any frontend when I can just do "apt-cache > search searchstring" & "apt-get install package". Same here. > On a completely unrelated note, Baloo, I don't know if this is your > doing or Evolution's, but your signature was automatically taken out > when I hit reply. The only thing that was shown was the message. If it > was your doing, how do you do it? :) That's evolution's. Many mailers will do this automagically if the person you're responding to does the right thing and breaks thier message with two dashes, a space and a newline, like you see below. If your mailer and newsreader don't do this automatically for you, just add it to the top of your .signature file. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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