Re: Apt database screwed up.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 07:26:11PM -0600, JonesMB wrote:
>
> >I do find their command keys unintuitive (or at least contrary to current
> >programming) and puzzling but I am not complaining or anything :).
>
> I think it is all a ploy to make sure that people still read and follow
> instructions :-)
>
> my early days with dselect sometimes resulted in some painful errors. I am
> much better now, and I think dselect is a great tool for package
> management, and that package management utility is one of Debian's
> strengths IMO.
console-apt is pretty good. Also, aptitude is even more powerful than
dselect (most of the time).
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Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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