On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> > But as it is currently, maintaining a Debian system by using
> > deselect is a real pain ...
>
> Actually, it's really nice for me. It automatically notes new packages that
> have been updated and lets me download and install them with less than 10
> or so keypresses.... whether there are 2 upgraded packages or 200.
>
Yes, dselect is at least supposed to be nice but sometimes just isn't at
all. I like the idea of upgrading my Debian installation via FTP a lot
too. But i once experienced unforeseen consequences out of the use of
dselect and have therefore chosen to avoid it's usage whenever possible.
I once deinstalled all newsreaders in my system because i'm used to read
news with a selfcompiled 'knews' installed under /usr/local for this
matter, not wanting to have unused software taking up disk space.
And without being really aware of what was happening dselect deinstalled
my complete news setup which i painfully configured. My error was to be so
faithful to believe that dselect deinstalls only what i wanted to be
deinstalled and nothing more.
I just hate programs that are trying to be more clever than i. Why is it
not possible to let dselect do only the things it is directly told to do
in a more transparent way without trying to do a complex second guess!?
Even dpkg is lots more transparent and straightforward compared to dselect
and in this regard lots more userfriendly than dselect is actually
supposed to be.
Regards, Paul *8^)
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