I've learned my lesson...<sigh>

[Alan DuBoff]

George Bonser wrote:

> I dunno, I still rely on dselect for a lot of things ... like when perl
> upgrades in potato and apt-get wants to remove a bunch of packages ...
> jump into dselect, put perl-5.005 on hold and keep on trucking.

I 'spose that when I have my first bad trip while using apt-get I might change
my mind, but dselect seemed like one bad trip after another for me.

It seemed that I got many packages at the wrong level which I wanted by using
dselect. And I'm sure that was a matter of my lack of understing the tool.

I did get gnome-apt, but the current disclaimer discouraged me from thinking
about using it for the time being. apt-get seems to work well, and for me it's
been much better than dselect has (even though dselect is just a front end).

> Conflict resolution need not be a bad thing, you can always <R>evert to
> what you had or tell dselect to just be <Q>uiet and do what you want it to
> do. Most people that run into trouble have just not mastered enough of the
> keystrokes.

Probably my problem, but I've used apt-get to install quite a few packages now
and have not had a single problem yet, maybe just beginner's luck.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.