walt ha scritto: > Heh. I laughed out loud when I read this link about dselect, especially > the quote from Andrew Morton who captured my sentiments exactly: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dselect
Oh well but it's kinda obvious that dselect is HELL and no one uses it anymore I think. I thought you were using something like aptitude, which is a bit clumsy but works well. But for me synaptics is THE way to do a user-friendly software installer. > Yes, if gentoo ever disappears (God forbid) I would probably go back to > Ubuntu because the Synaptics front end isn't too confusing. But I'm > still annoyed by the idea that a binary package can be only 'partially > installed', whatever that means. And why does a binary package need to > be "configured", whatever that means? Good questions. As for the first, I guess it means apt-get finds a conflict or something wrong happens during installing (Tried to google but didn't find anything). As for the configuring, well, I guess it's something like writing default configuration files, or when you have to do dispatch-conf here. > After I dropped dselect like a hot potato I used apt-get from the command > line routinely. I recall that there were often conflicts between the newly > downloaded packages and the old installed ones, leaving the machine in an > undefined state for me to sort out however I could. Yes this is bad, but probably is more due to bad packaging than to the packaging system itself (On Gentoo you have other troubles like having to revdep-rebuild your system etc., so to each its own) > Perhaps Debian has matured a bit since then -- I certainly hope so! I can say that using Kubuntu at work was mostly a piece of cake. It is a different system from Gentoo with different goals, of course. m.
