Re: Debian vs. RedHat
Jae W. Chang:
> Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but...
Can I nominate that for the understatement of the month? :-)
...
> I'll forgo the useless UI feature set for something that just works.
Another wonderful thing with dselect is that you can mix it with calls to
dpkg.
Sometimes I want handholding, and sometimes I know what I'm doing.
dpkg is also useful if I've downloaded a single package off somewhere, have
it sitting on the disk and I want to install just that.
Jiri
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