Paul Wade writes: ... > > Manoj is outlining a specification that would be great for the above > method. Standardized components could be tied into mc and similar > interfaces easily. I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control info and status. Then hit > the F4 (edit) or other appropriate key and get an option menu (remove, > force, upgrade, ....) and act on it. > > We definitely need a new dselect, but providing a way to handle packages > from existing shells, file managers, etc. would solve a lot of the interim > problems. >
Emacs has a nice feature that when you do a find-file on a (possibly gzipped) tar file you can look at the individual files. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to do the same with a .deb file. Maybe there exists such a thing already?
