Re: Slackware compared to Debian

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:29:49PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote:
> Huh? dselect IMHO is *the* best tool around for large-scale upgrades and
> such... I know a plain apt-get dist-upgrade is good, but at least with
> dselect you get the opportunity to *choose* which packages to upgrade.
> In fact, in my recent upgrade, I only got to download some 250+ mb of
> packages; if I just did apt-get, it would have been 450+...

Not to start a holy war, but aptitude is far better.  Give it a try,
you'll forget about dselect.  It's also good at basic "grab a package"
stuff.

Michael
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