Re: dftp & dselect
- To: debian-devel@Pixar.com
- Subject: Re: dftp & dselect
- From: "behan (b.) webster" <behanw@bnr.ca>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:33:00 -0500
- Message-id: <"20921 Thu Jan 18 11:37:35 1996"@bnr.ca>
>behan b. webster writes ("Re: dftp & dselect "):
>> dftp is ideal for keeping your debian installation up to date with the bleedy-
>> edge packages in the development tree. (or so I've found)
>> I find that I prefer to use dpkg and dftp to keep my system upto date
>> rather than using dselect. (I just find it's easier).
>
>Have you tried dselect ? dselect's only weakness atm in this area is
>that the package listing display isn't ideal for seeing what new
>packages are available, so that you can put them on hold to prevent
>them from being upgraded.
Since you sent this message I decided to try dselect again (I hadn't used
it for awhile). I'm afraid I came away with the same feeling I had before.
Namely that it does way more than I need, in a fashion that's hard to
understand. I find that using only 3 commands can get me much further
than using dselect.
dpkg --install filename.deb
dpkg --purge package
dpkg -l
Add dftp and stir. IMHO, easy to understand and use. Minimalist interface,
yes... But it does what I need it to do very well, and nothing else. I
very rarely have to use anything else to keep my debian system up to date.
Having said that, I don't want to imply that dselect is a bad program. It
just isn't for me. I feel that it has a lot of good features and a lot of
potential to become extremely easy to use and learn. IMHO it just isn't
there now.
I would like to compliment the author(s) of dpkg and the architects of the
whole debian packaging system. It sure makes maintaining linux
installations easy!
Behan
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