On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, David Warnock wrote: > Chad, > > Thanks for the tips, I promise I will use dpkg more, I have looked at > apt-find but currently it's purely alphabetical listing is less useful > than the sections in dselect. Also I like the two pane approach of > dselect.
True. Dselect is a good browser, but I find using it simply overkill. It always tries to install packages that you didn't explicitly select, so you have to go through a clean-up process to "unselect" those you don't want. I'm sure if I explored this a bit more, I'd find that I could delete the dselect config/cache file to make it start fresh. All-in-all, dselect is a good GUI front-end for those points you stated, but I still wouldn't install packages from it. You know what? That's the nice thing about Linux and Debian. You have so many different ways to solve a problem that no one person has to, or probably ever will, do it the same. :)_ Good luck! :) ^chewie http://nerp.net/~chewie <<--- Check it out! I'm selling my truck!
