On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:08:53PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: > I've always thought that people who say they hate dselect (or, worse, > that dselect is crap) fall into one of the following cases: > > (a) allergic to text-mode interfaces > (b) type or click without thinking > (c) haven't used it for more than 5 years (I don't know how dselect was > before slink) > (d) didn't bother to read the "dselect for beginners" tutorial or any > similar introductory document > (e) have had problems with packages that didn't install, upgrade or > configure correctly and wrongly blamed dselect for these problems. > > [ Quizz of the day: which cases do you think are the most common? ] > > Once you understand the basics, I find dselect to be a very useful and > efficient program.
Amen! Well said. Regards, David -- * Customer: "My palmtop won't turn on." * Tech Support: "Did the battery run out, maybe?" * Customer: "No, it doesn't use batteries. It's Windows powered." -- http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_power.shtml