On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:11:52PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 02:27:48PM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:50:09AM -0700, Chris Jantzen wrote: > > > > > > Easier for new people to use?!? > > > > > > /me rolls off chair laughing. > > > > > > I sincerely hope the ":-P" means you are using sarcasm. > > > > > > > Quite seriously, I prefer using dselect... the main complaint I've > > heard from new users is being able to search for a specific package > > quickly. As soon as I teach them about / for find and \ for find > > again, they generally find it just as useful as I do. > > Not I. I made a few attempts to use it in the beginning. After that I > decided that any and all installs I did from that point forward would > not run dselect.
And it was damn slow on my m68k back then, so i just used dpkg by hand, and later apt-get. Friendly, Sven Luther
