Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:21:00AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Package: dpkg > > > Version: 1.4.0.31 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Please remove the following methods (based on disk): > > > > > > harddisk > > > mounted > > > cdrom > > > nfs > > > > > > These methods are obsolete and buggy. Harddisk/mounted are replaced > > > by dpkg-multicd and apt methods. CDROM is also replaced by > > > dpkg-multicd; in fact, this CDROM method doesn't even *work* anymore > > > with slink since CD-ROMs span two devices. > > > > I strongly object to removing all of those except cdrom. I don't find apt > > adequate for my needs at this stage. > > What about dpkg-multicd?
I have no objection to cdrom being replaced with dpkg-multicd. > > Removing features to remove bugs is not a proper solution to reducing > > dpkg's bugs. Ian, please refrain from removing these features, which are > > still essential. > > I don't see anything "essential" in them. There are a lot of methods > available on slink (and slink's base system) that work as well than dpkg > default methods. Remember that dselect isn't just used to install the system, you also need to maintain it. I don't find the apt method an appropriate tool at this stage for maintenance. Where it excels at present is in the initial installation. > If you still need dpkg default methods, a proper solution would be to > extract them to a different package (say, dpkg-defaults), make dpkt-ftp, > dpkg-mountable, dpkg-multicd, dpkg-defaults, apt ... provide a virtual > package "dpkg-method" and make dpkg depend on dpkg-method. This should be done in the future, but not at the moment, certainly not just before slink's release. > That way only the few users that still don't find any other method > adequate for their needs will have to install that package, and have > those methods listed in the already crowded dselect's access method > menu. I don't call the 6 options currently in my dselect's access menu crowded, I'd say it was flexible. Martin.