There's a version of linuxconf undergoing testing for Debian in potato right now. What's RedHat got that's better than dselect? I haven't seen any decent tools for RPM's that provide: 1. Integration with an outside program to download all necessary files from a package mirror. 2. Listings of available packages in resonable groupings. #2 might be covered by some of the newer graphical RPM installers they've shipped on the 6.0/6.1 series, but they still don't have #1 working right. rpmfind is a really crappy piece of software IMHO. Just thoughts... On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 03:42:58AM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: > There are two really horrible things about Debian, though. 1) The dselect > package handler. I'm speaking from Debian 2.1 here. It has a very > primitive interface and is incredibly tedious. Maybe they're doing > something different in potato. 2) Lack of admin tools like Linuxconf. This > seems to be the best tool out there for system admin. Not that it's > perfect, but I don't know of any analog for it on Debian. -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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