What I Hate About Debian "dselect"

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:19 am, Leo J Mauler wrote:

> ... its always easier to install packages during the install ... 

Having done a fair number of installations over the years, using several 
different installers, I would have to disagree with you.  I've found that 
your best bet is to go with a likely default selection rather than trying to 
select packages at install time.  It's one more thing to go wrong during the 
install, and the package databases are one of the most resource-intense 
native applications on a Linux system.  

Just let the installer do what it thinks is best, then once the system is up 
and running properly you'll have plenty of time to add and remove packages.  
This way if you end up with a problem during installation and have to go back 
and install again, you don't loose all that time spent carefully specifying.