I'm inclined to believe that apt-get (and in fact most of the apt tools) are useful mainly script writers, and those trained on Red Hat. One of the reasons I still only show linux newbies how to use dselect, is that it is simply a matter of browsing the appropriate section or "/" searching for part of a package name, to find the appropriate package for installation or removal. If dselect was modified, so that "/" or a similar command would search package descriptions (preferably with a regexp), I don't think I'd be able to leave the house.
jeff On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 08:41:10AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Perhaps dselect is best seen as a tool for advanced managers and something a > little easier found for proplr who are new ti Linux and trying a first > installation. Or is Debian aimed at those "house-trained" bt Caldera, Red > Hat and SuSE? > > Patrick
