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Re: deselect survey



Rich Rudnick wrote:
On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 19:17 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
Paul Seelig <pseelig@debian.org> writes:
<survey>
I used dselect [-1] weeks ago. (-1 means it was so long ago that I don't remember or never did).
</survey>

My last use of it was long ago, but I remember it clearly.  Too clearly.
I'd rather use dpkg directly.
--
John Hasler


<survey>
I used dselect [-1] weeks ago. As a data point, my third and last debian install was unstable on June
19, 2001, booted from the two i386 1.44M potato disks. Since then I've
intentionally used aptitude (backed up by dpkg when I've been terminally
stupid) to keep that installation working, lean, and to my taste. What's
dselect, and who needs apt? :) </survey>

You do... aptitude is just a frontend to apt, not a replacement for it :). You still need libapt-blah. I don't even have aptitude installed as it conflicts with experimental apt.

I used dselect [1] week[s] ago. I would use deselect over synaptic any day.



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