[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) writes: > George Bonser writes: > > One of these days I will write a version of dselect in tcl/tk that will > > use colors to denote the state of different packages and be just plain > > nicer. > > I agree that dselect needs work, bu please don't make it into a huge > graphical thing that won't run on a terminal and depends on a lot of > other stuff. Keep it simple.
As someone who has thought about rewriting dselect into a huge graphical thing that won't run on a terminal -- why? Package management is a hairy task involving a lot of information, and doing it on a 24x80 screen is almost painful. I appreciate the need to have a bare-bones package selection program that is small enough to cram onto a bootdisk and runs on a console. It would be a shame if that need restrained any development of a better package manager. So maybe it's time to have two -- dselect and xselect. -Tom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]