dselect vs apt (RE: [plug] Question for everyone)

[Brad Campbell]

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> Nah, dselect predates apt by several years - and which I found very
> powerful back when there were only a couple of hundred packages available,
> so it was trivial to browse through the list and select what I wanted to
> install.
> 
> These days it would take many hours to go through all the available
> packages, so dselect is more of a hindrance than a help these days, but I
> still look upon it fondly.

And you can pry it from my cold dead hands.. I have tried synaptic and aptitude.. give me dselect 
any day of the week.. For most tasks I use apt-get and apt-cache, but for the upgrade type stuff 
dselect has it pegged.

Brad (Dinosaur)
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