On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Ed Cogburn wrote: > > As Deb becomes bigger, attracting more users, with some > > of them becoming developers, Deb's weaknesses such as the install > > problems will be addressed as well (am I the only one who likes > > dselect? :-) ). > No, there's at least two of us :-) I think dselect, especially in > combination with the apt access method, is terrific - it just takes some > time upfront to get used to it.
Waaaaaay back when, I used Slackware. Then, one of my users suggested that I try Redhat. He raved about the ability that RPM files give you to upgrade your system automatically. So, I tried it. I installed Redhat on a system and it worked okay, so I installed it on another. On the second system, I chose not to install X initially. Later, I changed my mind and went looking for the text-mode package selection utility so that I could install X. I couldn't find one. Now, I KNOW that there is one (for the install runs such a beast) but I couldn't find out what it was called or determine any references to it. The only Redhat package selection utilities I could find were X based. Since I didn't have X installed (installing X, after all, was why I was trying to find a text mode installer) I wound up having to run RPM for each of the parts which meant I had to figure out what all the parts were. It was not a fun process. However, there were other distributions and one of the CD-ROMs that I had had a copy of Debian on it. Debian doesn't force me to install X on my computer. Even if I don't install X initially, I can still select and install packages on my computer. So, I freakin' LOVE dselect. Don't ever get rid of it. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA