Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?
At 11:51 PM 2/26/99 -0500, Geoffrey Deasey KD4WVF wrote:
>We are attracting windows users and they
>come to us with no linux experience. I tryed
>debian a while ago <snip> and became so
>frustrated with dselect that I gave up twice.
Exactly true. I used apt-get to install Slink and believe apt-get is
excellent. The issue for me is that it needs a top level package selection
system. For example. It would be nice to have a category called "mail
transport agents" and one called "mail clients". I would browse the list of
candidate packages and make my choice. Then apt-get would find all the
dependencies and install them.
There should also be a top-level package "remove" option that would remove a
package and all orphaned dependencies. I'll bring this idea up with the
apt-get maintainer but I wanted to let people know that I found apt-get to be
much easier to use than dselect. Until I installed apt-get, I had given up on
dselect and was simple downloading packages and running dpkg recursively until
I got a given package fully installed.
Disclaimer: I am a Debian amateur so my comments may be uninformed.
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