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

[Rick Moen]

Quoting George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com):

> 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.
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

'Course, you could do that with dpkg, too.

The ideas implemented by dselect are superb, but the user interface is
a bit daunting and many of us have been slow to get used to it.  
Fortunately, many of its virtues are actually rooted in the underlying
package-management system, and are thus accessible using other tools.

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