On Tuesday 20 September 2011 09:53:41 pm DMW@... wrote:

>
> Hey, Greg,
> I've never used dselect, and some of the Lenny doc seemed to
> discourage its use.  I'm curious:  What you you like about it?
>
> Thanks-
> Douglas


Simple really, I know how  to use it really  well for my needs. I have been using 
it for about 10 years so I am very comfortable with it.

I do use aptitude and apt-get, from a command line, great tools also.

 Dselect has been deprecated in favor of new shining tools. The thing about 
suggested preferred tools, ... Debian deprecated apt-get in favor of aptitude in 
Lenny, Squeeze reversed that suggestion, apt-get is okay to use now, dselect will 
probably never make a comeback though :-) 

-- 
Peace,

Greg