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Re: new to debian have questions



On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:17:10PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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?
                   ^^^
                   That should be MUA.  Guess I look dumb too...

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>



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