Jens Peter Secher wrote:
<survey>I used dselect [ ] weeks ago. (-1 means it was so long ago that I don't remember or never did).</survey> Send answers to jps@debian.org if you are interested.
It is my preferred package interface if I do not know the exact name for what I want OR I am going to install a bunch of stuff at once.
Aptitude has never worked right for me. Long ago I read the dselect help and we have got along ever since.
That said, if people don't want it, they should be able to remove it. I believe it should come with Debian by default though.