Re: Firewall On Slink

[eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)]

> packages then dselect is excellent to be able to browse what is
> installed and easily add and remove packages while seeing the impact

Ehh, I prefer to browse the apt list files (and debian-changes), and
if I find something of interest, let "apt-get install" take care of
the "impact".  It'll prompt if there's something complicated; if a
package just gets installed, it just does it.  Having a bit more of a
wrapper might be nice, but dselect isn't it :-)  A character based gui
is still a gui; thus, it still lacks the power of a command line...

alias sdeb sgrep\ -i\ -o\ \'%r\\n\'\ \'DEB_PKG\ containing\ \"\!:1\"\'\ /var/state/apt/lists/\*

and then
	% sdeb ipchain | less
for example...