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Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity



On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh:

> Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my
> maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no
> sense to me whatsoever. dselect just makes everything really simple.
> Though, from what I understand, I'm more likely to get odd, unbelieving,
> cross-eyed glances than "Me too's!" for that. :)

    I'm afraid of dselect. Every time I try to use it, it insists on
installing a bunch of crap that I didn't ask for. 

    Mike

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