FWIW, I absolutely loathe dselect. I'm sure it's probably improved with the last few releases of Debian, but it used to be a royal PITA.
The only time I use dselect is during the initial installation just because it starts up automatically. I immediately exit dselect, let the system reboot, then install what I want to using apt-get. I've yet to find that there was anything I needed to do that *required* that I fire up dselect. apt-get and dpkg work just fine for me. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric E Moore Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:48 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: new to debian have questions >>>>> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joost> Apt-get is generally much cooler when run as a dselect method. Joost> It will save you many pains if you take 30 minutes to learn the Joost> principles behind dselect and its slightly weird key Joost> assignments (it's still much easier to learn than vi). Joost> People who tell you to use apt-get directly are generally Joost> ill-informed. If you do not understand what dselect does for Joost> you, that means that you have to do it yourself if you don't Joost> use dselect. Unfortunately, it seems that many people do not Joost> understand what dselect is supposed to do. For the relatively uninitated amongst us, could you spell this out quickly. What does dselct do that apt-get doesn't? I remember hearing on a list that it doesn't handle suggests and reccomends, is there anything else? If so, what? Is this in a FAQ? I checked the debian faq and it lists some things dselect can do, but it seems apt-get does some too... -Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
