"Heiko R. Selber" writes: -> On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: -> -> > On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Heiko R. Selber wrote: -> > -> > > [ Problems with dselect ] -> -> > Well, don't judge Debian by dselect. Dselect is the product of one mind -> > and has, in my estimation, severe user interface problems. -> -> I disagree. DO judge Debian by dselect. To the debian-newbie, dselect is -> the first thing you see (thus, for the moment it IS Debian) and if it -> doesn't do what it should, it will intimidate new users (maybe forever). ->
I agree here... I just installed debian 1.1 to replace my 3.0 Slackware system. It seems Slackware isn't making much progress, and my system was becoming rather patchwork, so I decided to start mostly fresh :) dselect IS the most visible portion of the Debian packaging system, and the packaging system is the most visible distinctive part of a particular Linux distribution. Overall, I like Debian so far. It seems a lot of work has gone into making Debian very sensible and upgradable on many levels. Dselect is Debian's ugly wart, IMHO. It took me several rounds of playing around with it to eventually get it to install all the packages I had downloaded. dselect is very powerful, but with that power, it sometimes loses intuitiveness. One possible solution is maybe to make a 'dumbed down' installer, which acts similar to Slackware's setup tool (from a user interface POV, anyways), allows me to go through, select my system, then check dependencies and advise me (or optionally after every package set, whenever I press the "advise" button, whatever). This could be used as a simple 'get-you-up-and-running' install tool, then once the system was set up, the user could use dselect for the more advanced solution. Just a suggestion... -Larry -- Larry Daffner | Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ It's better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. --Abraham Lincoln
