On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:52:05AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Completely and utterly wrong in my case. I'm exactly the sort of > person that you apparently think should like dselect, but I think > aptitude is _far_ superior, for both experts and newbies. The > competition isn't even close.
Except when you face the fact that aptitude uses a very sick kind of MDI. Sick because there's actually no "MD", you're editing a single chunk of information using multiple views. It's very hard to figure out "what just happened" because there's no direct visual feedback. The other problem with aptitude is touted as a design feature: it tends to be all-or-nothing. Either you use it always or you don't (automatic removal thingie). This becomes a problem when multiple persons use different interfaces for adding and removing packages to the system. Marcelo
