Re: dpkg, dselect, apt... what's what?

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 06:38:55PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ben Gertzfield writes ("Re: dpkg, dselect, apt... what's what?"):
> ...
> > dselect will be replaced when there is a decent text-mode (curses or
> > slang or other) frontend to apt.
> 
> FYI, I have no intention of withdrawing dselect.

glad to hear it.

I *like* dselect.  The user-interface may not have scaled well from ~400
packages to over 2000 packages, but it does basically what it claims to
do, does it reliably and safely, and is reasonably simple to drive once
you learn it.

i'm sure that i will like the text-mode apt UI when it arrives too, but
i think i'll continue using dselect for a long time to come.

i think too many people slag off dselect unreasonably. for all it's
faults, it is one of the most useful programs in debian.

craig


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craig sanders