On Friday 26 September 2003 22:03, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:31, cr wrote:
(snip) > > dselect is actually not so bad on a one-app basis, it's trying to use it > > to select all the apps for an install where it rapidly gets old. ;) > > Call me weird, but unless I'm only installing one or two packages (which > I'll just use apt-get to do) I think dselect is the best tool for the > job. It lets you see recommended and suggested packages while > automatically showing you which dependencies need to be installed. It's > also the only really "intuitive" package manager I've found. It took me > about 2 hours of playing with it to understand it. With respect, if it takes a couple of hours to understand, I wouldn't call that 'intuitive'. And the other thing is, I guess, that first encountering it during the Debian install process (and having to restart the whole process if you make a mistake) is the worst possible time to get to know any piece of software. But I won't belabour the point any further. cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
