Re: Re: no wonder...

[Paolo Pedaletti <paolo.pedaletti@flashnet.it>]

Ciao Carl Fink,

 > > > Another thing, is the dselect program: it is quite 
 > > > difficult to use...
 > > 
 > > Yes, ever more difficult too as the number of packages increases.
 > > But what dselect disguises is an excellent package management tool.
 > > You might find apt a better front-end to use. Try man apt-get.
 > 
 > They aren't equivalent.  Apt is fine for installing programs, but for
 > *deciding* what to install, it's useless.  I find myself using
 > dselect to search package descriptions, then installing through apt. 

and what about aptitude (console) % gnome-apt (X) ?
(was very nice console-apt)

Ciao

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Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa
paolo.pedaletti@flashnet.it