On Tue, 14 May 1996, Christian Hudon wrote: > > Looks OK (we can include a mouse interface). But what is required more then > > a new look is the ability to list only the 'installed' packages, or select a > > singe package to be installed/removed, and a method of seeing which package > > (installed) is older than its archive version (and will therefore be > > updated). > > About the interface, it'd be nice to have something mc-ish. (mc = Midnight > Commander; get it and take a look if you don't have it, there's a Debian > package for it). It's got pull-down menus and dialog boxes... it's very > nice, supports gpm mice and is something DOS people will recognize > instantly. > > And since mc is GPL'ed, we could borrow their low-level > interface code. Would save quite a bit of coding work and would make for a > nice interface, IMHO at least. > > Christian >
There's libraries for this already, for example ncurses. OTOH I understand they are quite large (and would have to be linked static of course). Which does not bother me personally. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Parents: this version of Linux contains small components that new users may pick up and put in their mouth.