Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-26 Thread Michael Gaertner
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Jeff Prothero wrote: > Here's an attempt to turn above grumps into a constructive > proposal: > > -> Introduce the idea of a "Debian configuration" -- a > complete set of packages guaranteed to work together > and constitute a complete, usable Debian install, > a

Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-26 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Michael Dillon wrote:' > > >-- Forwarded message -- >Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:50:32 -0400 >From: Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Clipped generic complaint about dselect's user unfriendlyness.] Wow one of my USENET "heroes" forwards a mail from another of my USENET "heroes" about

Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-25 Thread Jeff Prothero
Re comments such as: | > Getting dselect to install the packages I wanted was a real pain [...] | Yep, I didn't care much for dselect either. [...] 1) I think dpkg / dselect / ... are tremendously important and impressive! I'm used to the convenience of the SGI package management system,

Re: Problems with dselect...

1996-09-25 Thread Michael Dillon
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:51:31 -0700 From: Ken Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Linux Servers mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list SERVER-LINUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Out of ptys Yep, I didn't care much for dselect ei