Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> writes: > I've always thought that people who say they hate dselect (or, worse, > that dselect is crap) fall into one of the following cases: > > (a) allergic to text-mode interfaces > (b) type or click without thinking > (c) haven't used it for more than 5 years (I don't know how dselect > was > before slink) > (d) didn't bother to read the "dselect for beginners" tutorial or any > similar introductory document > (e) have had problems with packages that didn't install, upgrade or > configure correctly and wrongly blamed dselect for these > problems. On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:13:29PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > (f) bash dselect 'cause someone else said it was crap I'll vote for (f) then. I remember very early on in my Debian experience, reading an email signature here that quoted someone as saying "dselect has an interface that scares small children". And I must confess the couple of times I've had an installation process start dselect for me, I've ended up Control-Cing out since I couldn't work out how to make it do what I wanted. (I guess this also means (d)) I don't think that's five years ago, but it's probably quite close. ^_^ On the other hand, I don't think I've tried aptitude, or I tried it and had the same problem. apt-get and apt-cache are my friends, and I love them for letting me specify what I want to do in a way that is intuitive to me. Altough I wish I could tab-complete package names sometimes. ^_^ -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 7th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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