On 10115 March 1977, David Weinehall wrote: > You might want to set the time on your computer... >> > Please remove dpkg's pre-dependency on dselect, thus making it possible >> > to change Priority of dselect to something other than required. >> Hell no, dselect is one of the best things in Debian, used daily. >> (And I know enough people using it and enough Newbies preferring dselect >> over aptitude and other apt-frontends, just because dselect is much >> easier to learn.) > Well, just because you prefer it and use it doesn't necessarily mean > that everyone should suffer from having to lug around that baggage, just > like you probably wouldn't want aptitude to be a required package. > I find it quite amusing that apt, generally regarded by non-Debianers > as the greatest thing with Debian (something that is not true of course, > the greatest thing with Debian is the multitude of quality packages, > the DFSG and our fantastic Developer-community...), is only Priority: > important, while dselect is Priority: required.
Yeah, after sarge one can change that a bit.
> I have yet to meet a newbie in real life that found dselect easy to use,
> but had problems with aptitude/synaptic/whatever...
Oh, I know 3, from 4 Newbies I helped in the last weeks. They tried
aptitude instead of dselect, because it was announced as easier, but
quickly changed to dselect. :)
> Still, I'm not advocating dropping dselect altogether, I just want it
> possible for us non-dselect-loving Debian-users to remove it from our
> machines (or indeed, to never have it installed in the first place).
>> (Im unfortunately not a good C/C++ programmer or I would help with
>> dselect).
> Good sentiment.
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bye Joerg
<Ganneff> kde und tastatur? passt doch nicht mit dem nutzerprofil
"windepp" zusammen :)
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