Re: Bug#106566: ITP: apt-howto -- a detailed manual for apt features
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 04:19:18PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:55:07 +0200
> joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij) escreveu:
>
> > Hmm, dselect is essentially not a command line tool. It is an interactive
> > application for package management, that can do the "apt-get install"
> > bit for you.
> is there an 'official plan' to replace dselect? aptitude or deity?
Why does it need to be replaced? What brings you to ask this?
If you don't like dselect for some pet reason, use one of the available
alternatives, or write your own wrappers for dpkg or apt. Good luck
reinventing dselect, which you are doomed to do (but at least then you
will finally have understood what it does).
Let's stop the anti-dselect fud. Dselect works fine. It always has
worked fine. It will, for a while to come, because it has a large,
silently content userbase. It is a valuable tool and has always been
one of the strong points of debian. If you think that apt-get is a
replacement for dselect, then you do not get it.
Please people, learn to use the tool and you'll be grateful for it.
And stop trolling me about dselect. ;-)
Cheers,
Joost
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