Re: packages fetching tools
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On Monday 26 July 2004 04:16, Nick Boyce wrote:
> I'm sorry ... I've used dselect. I still have bad dreams about the
> hours I spent lost wandering round in there (not to mention in its
> so-called help system). IMHO it's user interface exemplifies the
> phrase "as user friendly as a cornered rat". I can't imagine what the
> designers were thinking of when they dreamed it up.
>
> I understand that it (apparently) gives the best level of control over
> packages, and it sure is very quick at whatever-the-hell-it-is that it
> does, but I won't use it again unless I'm being beaten with rubber
> hoses to force me to.
>
> If apt hadn't existed, I might even have been forced to give up using
> Debian because of the thought of having to use dselect for package
> management.
>
> [phew] I feel better now ... thankyou for letting me share that with
> you ;-)
full ack! i actually never used dselect. i quit it after about 5 minutes and
never called it again. this app makes me feel far more stupid than i already
consider myself being. i prefer apt/dpkg, sometimes if i want to browse the
db or want some overview, i use synaptic.
this post might not be considered a very valuable contribution to this list
but thanks Nick, i feel with you.
ciao
sven
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what we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. what we call random
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nonsense. what we can't read we call gibberish. - chuck palahniuk, survivor
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