Re: dselect survey

[Gergely Korodi <gergely.korodi@tut.fi>]

Jens Peter Secher <jps@debian.org> writes:

> > Popcon says (rank by vote)
> > #rank name      inst  vote   old recent no-files (maintainer)
> > 371   dselect   5783  1310  3162  1310     1     (Dpkg Development)
>
> Yes, I was not very clear.  What I really meant was "who uses the
> full-screen interface of dselect?".

<survey>
I used dselect [0.53] weeks ago.
(-1 means it was so long ago that I don't remember or never did).
</survey>

And that means the full-screen interface.

>From time to time I give a try to aptitude and synaptic, but always recoil
in horror.  I don't know what the fuss is about aptitude, IMHO it's way
more complicated to use than dselect, and less clear as well.  As for
synaptic, I've never been able to use it for more than 5 minutes without
it crashing with a segfault.  Not the kind of behavior I'd expect from my
package manager frontend of choice.  Oh, I use the presumedly "stable"
version that comes with Woody.

Dselect has always been very stable and reliable to me.  My only concern
of it is its lack of features; those that it knows, knows well, but I
wouldn't mind indeed if someone could soup it up a bit.  But even in its
current state, it's a worthy tool.  However, I also think that it would be
more logical to remove it from dpkg, and put it in its own package.

Regards,

   Gergo