On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:29:49PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: > Huh? dselect IMHO is *the* best tool around for large-scale upgrades and > such... I know a plain apt-get dist-upgrade is good, but at least with > dselect you get the opportunity to *choose* which packages to upgrade. > In fact, in my recent upgrade, I only got to download some 250+ mb of > packages; if I just did apt-get, it would have been 450+...
Not to start a holy war, but aptitude is far better. Give it a try, you'll forget about dselect. It's also good at basic "grab a package" stuff. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
