On Thu, 6 May 1999, Richard Kilgore wrote:
> Also, you don't necessarily need to muck with dselect even to
> start if you hate it that much. You can select one of the
> pre-selected "collections" of packages (don't know what else to
As an example, this longtime Debian user has *never* used dselect.
I took one look at it, tried to figure out the keybindings, decided it was
irritating, and learned dpkg syntax instead.
The various people I've taught or helped install Debian with have
never learned dselect either; just a few dpkg commands and away they go.
I guess there's a use for dselect when you don't know what many of the
packages do; (of course, back then there were at lot less packages!)
For the record, Debian 2.1 contains over 2250 packages. I didn't
see a similar count anywhere on RedHat's website, but I recall Debian
claiming that this is now (far) more packages than any other distro -- and
as others have pointed out, Debian packages generally work. The "contrib"
section isn't so in any conventional or RedHat meaning.
-Alex Winbow
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