On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:01:05AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > A> Try aptitude instead of dselect; it doesn't have many of its > A> problems. It's IMHO much better, and it is the new "standard" > A> package managing tool. > > ok, if it is so standard
It's not. > then it should be installed by default in the tasksel phase. I believe it will be in the next release; the base-config maintainer seems to like aptitude, but it was too close to release to go mucking about with that. > My first impression of debian, woody, is: gee, they sure like giving > you old defaults: > > emacs20. want emacs 21 then install it yourself. should be the other > way around. That's just the unix-server task. File a bug against tasksel. > awk is 1996 mawk. try awk --help, awk --version: cold and > unresponsive. If you want that info see the man page. unless users > install gawk themselves then Aaron's years of gawk effort are > irrelevant. Best talk to the mawk/gawk maintainer (the same person maintains both, so I'm guessing he has his reasons). [Snip ad hominems - I'm sure you're getting my point, filing bugs is far more effective than complaints about how the GNU label is undeserved.] -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]