Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:39:16PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > > I'm sure people are going to disagree with my assessment, claiming > that dselect is user friendly, it's just that all the users are too > stupid to use it. So maybe we need some good data. dselect is user friendly, its just picky

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-06 Thread Damon Muller
Quoth Walter Tautz, > I would slightly concur with your assessment of dselect but > only in the sense that it lists simply too many packages. I > am not sure, but perhaps it is possible to present the various > software types in a less verbose manner. Sort of like the slrn > news reader where on

Re: comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-05 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:02:39PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > > and I was impressed

comments on dselect...not unreasonable

2000-10-05 Thread Walter Tautz
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Peak Allan wrote: > As a Debian newbie I have to say that the worst thing > about Debian was dselect. It seemed to be a confusing > morass. Once I got a workable system it was great, > and I was impressed by how easy it was to go from > slink to potato, but getting started