Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:16:02AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Kurt Sys wrote: > > To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After > > I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my > > laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of > > being 'unconcentra

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Heather Stern
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:16:02AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > Kurt Sys wrote: > > To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After > > I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my > > laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of > > being 'unconcentra

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Kurt Sys wrote: > To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After > I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my > laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of > being 'unconcentrated'. I simply don't use dselect anymore. > Just 'apt-get' thinks (or

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Matej Cepl
Kurt Sys wrote: > To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After > I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my > laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of > being 'unconcentrated'. I simply don't use dselect anymore. > Just 'apt-get' thinks (or

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of being 'unconcentrated'. I simply don't use dselect anymore. Just 'apt-get' thinks (or 'dpkg'), it w

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-20 Thread Kurt Sys
Hello, To be honest, I had some troubles with dselect too... After I had some thing installed 'automatically' etc, it messed up my laptop once. OK, this might partially due to myself because of being 'unconcentrated'. I simply don't use dselect anymore. Just 'apt-get' thinks (or 'dpkg'), it wo

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread mw
I didn't use dselect now for a long time, but i remember the feeling when i moved to aptitude: ah, _that's it_. It's far more illustrative and easier to oversee problems with it's tree structured info-link-like movement, and colors. If you give it a try, note that there might be a problem using d

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these > as > brokenly inst

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread mw
I didn't use dselect now for a long time, but i remember the feeling when i moved to aptitude: ah, _that's it_. It's far more illustrative and easier to oversee problems with it's tree structured info-link-like movement, and colors. If you give it a try, note that there might be a problem using d

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as > brokenly install

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these > as > brokenly inst

dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Paul King
Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as brokenly installed packages but the apps work fine. The next time I use dselect, it

Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote: > Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my > wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. > > I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as > brokenly install

dselect sucks greasy cheese balls

2003-01-19 Thread Paul King
Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress. I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as brokenly installed packages but the apps work fine. The next time I use dselect, it