[geeks] Alpha check

Michael-John Turner geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri May 18 16:35:59 CDT 2001


On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:15:58AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> I'll agree that dpkg has an ugly interface, but then rpm's isn't exactly
> stellar.  I think they're both shit.  Oh, and I avoid that ghastly
> monstrosity that is dselect altogether.  But there is no rpm equivalent of
> it so that's a non-issue.

Yes, dselect is nasty - if you want a nicer curses-based frontend to apt,
try console-apt or aptitude.

-mj
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