> > On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism > >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. > > Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return I have > been getting a flippant attitude of "It isn't that many ketstrokes." In > fact, one person has said that if the situation were reverse he(?)'d find it > unacceptable yet is asking that I find it acceptable that I must do what he > would not if things were reversed.
I think there are two things to be said about this that have not been mentioned (I think). 1) If all you want to do is upgrade a few packages, dpkg is your friend: `dpkg --install <package>.deb' is much quicker than running dselect. 2) The interface of dselect is known to be a bit klunky (by which I mean: not so intuitive). That is why an alternative, `apt' is in the works. As far as I know it will be available somewhere in debian2.1. It might be a better idea for people to put their energy in that project than to improve on the practically dead corpse that dselect is. Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
