This is the 4th week after my first installation attempts. After trying
many
Computersystems and OS's i have to say that none of them is what it
should be -
user friendly. But Linux and Debian in special isn't really that bad
- in fact
it's very good. But it's really too much in one sigh.
The negative points are (if they are negative at all):
Tons of Packages (that's good);
Too many Documents and especially too many outdated Documents (no Debian
Problem
- moreover a Linux thing);
Tons of Bug-Reports to process when having a Problem (good);
Tons of eMail in the Mailing-Lists (very good);
libc5/libc6
The installation-routine doesn't determine which of the selected packages
must be installed first. When package y needs package x to be installed
but the simple alphabetic order of dselect want's to install package x
first and second is package y - two runs are neccessary. If this happens
with many packages at one time - big trouble may occur...
Is the output of dselect logged somewhere?
This woud help much, because most of the errors are not even readable
when hushing over the screen. At least, the benefits of .deb are a bad
in another way... They make the system intransparent for the user. A year
ago, i dealt with slackware. After installing everything - step by step
- i had a good feeling for the system, just _because_ i wrote almost every
config-file by myself. So i learned to know the system (step by step -
from easy to complex). dselect puts everything where it should be, but
doesn't tell the user anything of it's actions. At least the package-descriptions
should contain some info about all the installed files (their names and
their destination-paths).
Mac,
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