Chris Palmer wrote: > ok, so I've heard now from a couple folks that I should avoid > dselect. It's pretty much been the only way that I'd ever done > any package maintenance on my system (I guess I'm behind the > times). It's also the only way I've know about availability of > packages, and it was cool that I could just flag them. > > Should I now abandon the settings in dselect and no longer run > it? I had attempted to flag things that I wanted to add to my > system in there (and I have no idea what they were now).
There's absolutely nothing wrong with using dselect. Just learn to use the "R" and "Q" keys if a dependancy conflict causes dselect to want to remove packages that you need, and file bugs in these cases so we can know about them. Dselect is a very useful tool, just because a lot of current debian users have not invested the time to feel comfortable with it does not mean you should follow their bad advice. -- see shy jo
