On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect > > > > Kind of like make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig > > I agree that there should be some kind of bare-bones select for installation > but I think dselect has gotten to the 10-lbs in a 5-lb bag stage. I would > go for a select that installs the required packages then runs mselect > (menu-select) or xselect to pick and choose the other stuff. > > Colors can be useful to convey information without additional characters > causing information overload though that would limit the utility of the > program for people with poor color vision. Red in uppercase meaning purge, > red in lowercase meaning remove, yellow meaning dependancy problem (uppercase > is required, lowercase suggest), green means add or install, white or black > means hold and blue means that the package has a newer version available but > is not currently selected to be changed. > > It then works a lot like color-ls. If you are doing a quick scan for new > packages, they stand out in blue. You can see at a glance what select pre- > selected for you because it is green, no more overwriting a package > accidently. > > Just some thoughts. Maybe some of this can be done without X using ansi.
NCURSES or SLANG, possibly? (isn't slang similiar to ncurses? Kick me if its not) OR like I said, something based on SVGAlib... (which does not use X) -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]