Hi all, Since the gentleman requested, and will soon be deluged with mail, I decided to get my two cents in early.
1. Please include a download status indicator. i.e. time remaining. I am using a link that only lasts three hours, and then shuts down. An indication of how much time is needed/remains would give me a guide as to which order I want to grab packages. 2. I know there has been much traffic about the interface, but I think the best I've seen for this type of material is a nested list of packages. Start the top with all packages, then go to stable, contrib, non-free... After that break them down by group, i.e. admin, base, ... The thread that could tie all of these together is the ability to make some of these disapear. For Example: -All Packages -Stable -admin -acct -base -adduser -Contrib -Non-free Now all that is needed is a keystroke sequence to open and close the catagories. The closest piece of software out now that would be similar is the Netscape News Window. The scrolling through dselect can be tiring. I agree that dselect is the greatest tool for software management I have seen, but there should be a way to condense the number of packages displayed on the screen at any one time. This can avoid information overload, which IMHO is dselect's flaw. I'm not sure of the best way to arrange the dependencies. Maybe a toggle to arrange packages by dependencies or catagory. I hope this has been helpful and not a waste of bandwidth. Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU