Re: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:11:52PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:27:48PM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:50:09AM -0700, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > > 
> > > Easier for new people to use?!?
> > > 
> > > /me rolls off chair laughing.
> > > 
> > > I sincerely hope the ":-P" means you are using sarcasm.
> > > 
> > 
> > Quite seriously, I prefer using dselect... the main complaint I've
> > heard from new users is being able to search for a specific package
> > quickly. As soon as I teach them about / for find and \ for find
> > again, they generally find it just as useful as I do.
> 
> Not I.  I made a few attempts to use it in the beginning.  After that I
> decided that any and all installs I did from that point forward would
> not run dselect.  

And it was damn slow on my m68k back then, so i just used dpkg by hand,
and later apt-get.

Friendly,

Sven Luther