> packages then dselect is excellent to be able to browse what is
> installed and easily add and remove packages while seeing the impact
Ehh, I prefer to browse the apt list files (and debian-changes), and
if I find something of interest, let "apt-get install" take care of
the "impact". It'll prompt if there's something complicated; if a
package just gets installed, it just does it. Having a bit more of a
wrapper might be nice, but dselect isn't it :-) A character based gui
is still a gui; thus, it still lacks the power of a command line...
alias sdeb sgrep\ -i\ -o\ \'%r\\n\'\ \'DEB_PKG\ containing\ \"\!:1\"\'\
/var/state/apt/lists/\*
and then
% sdeb ipchain | less
for example...
