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Re: new to debian have questions



On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 04:46:04PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> FWIW, I absolutely loathe dselect.  I'm sure it's
> probably improved with the last few releases of Debian,
> but it used to be a royal PITA.
> 
> The only time I use dselect is during the initial
> installation just because it starts up automatically.
> I immediately exit dselect, let the system reboot,
> then install what I want to using apt-get.  I've yet
> to find that there was anything I needed to do that
> *required* that I fire up dselect.
> 
> apt-get and dpkg work just fine for me.

Does it come as any surprise that this comes from someone that uses MS
Outlook as their MTA?

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>



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