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Re: the dselect debate



On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:35:46PM -0300, Chris Dion wrote:
> I'm new to both Linux in general and the debian distribution
> specifically. I found that dselect, though awkward at first, was rather
> easy to use and quite powerful.  That's not to say that the interface
> couldn't be improved somewhat.  Is work on dselect ongoing, and is the
> source available? If so, I'd like to take some of the suggestions and
> concerns voiced on this list and have a go at improving the tool. 
> That's assuming my programming skills are up to the task ; )
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chris Dion
> 
> 
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"cd /usr/local/src; apt-get source dselect" will download the source to 
dselect into /usr/local/src/dselect-<version>. Also, check out the gnome-apt
program. It aims to be an X-based replacement for dselect. 
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