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

[Shannon Carver]

I think I stand corrected!

Maybe I should say, I could never get it working correctly in a way that 
made sense to me, so I wrote it off completely.

Shannon

Brad Campbell wrote:
> 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)