[plug] confessions of a dselect lover

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Wed Oct 1 16:09:22 WST 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 11:32:33AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:

| Everywhere I read that dselect is a pain.
| I have always found dselect easy and powerful to use. Am I an alien?

Quite possibly, but Bdale Garbee was speaking in favour of dselect in
one of his talks at LCA in January so you're certainly not alone: just a
member of an elite group who can work out what the heck dselect is
trying to do when it gets into one of its dependency-related hissy fits.

Cameron.

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