> I never liked dselect. I switched to aptitude shortly after I started
> using Linux (around 2004, Debian Sarge was about to release). dselect
> kept doing unintuitive things like making changes after I quit and
> restarted the program that I thought I had cancelled the first time.
> aptitude's interface was so much nicer. Of course, once I learned
> apt-get I really didn't see why I needed a ncurses interface (I
> didn't realize until later that I could use aptitude like apt-get).
I've met people who didn't know there *was* an ncurses interface. They
saw so many examples of people using apt-get, that they thought that was
all they had. It resulted in them not easily knowing what packages were
available, and due to apt-get's lack of full dependancy supprt, some
package installation frustration.
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