7700 packages...

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:59:38PM -0400:
> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Between stable, testing, and unstable, I have somewhere around 7700
> > packages to choose from for Debian... With dselect, you get to see
> > around 10 packages at a time... must find a better system!!!
> 
> Hit `I' (must be capital) in the package list screen to see more
> packages at once.  Also you'll probably not want to use 80x25
> console mode, I use 128x48 mode myself.

I think what I'm looking for is something better than dselect.
Basically dselect is a nightmare to use, and even for as long as
I've been using it, I don't feel anywhere near comfortable that it
will do what I want, install the packages I need, or help me keep
my sanity when installing packages.  Once you get debian installed,
using apt to update your system rocks, but setting up your system
is another thing entirely...

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