On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zack Brown) wrote: >[lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped]
Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but here's my wishlist for those that might care to listen. I'd also like the option to have downloaded debs automatically copied to a local "mirror". It would take up a lot of space, but I'd like to be able to keep perhaps the last two versions of each package installed, so that a downgrade could be performed without having to download the previous version again (assuming that one can find it). Getting rid of that help screen when entering the select phase would be good, as an option. Hmm, how about an automatic method for downloading source packages, recompiling them and repackaging for use in the install phase? Useful if you want to specify compiler options other than the defaults, read from a config file. Oh, and they'd want to be stored in that local mirror first, of course! Perhaps two source and two binary directories is overdoing it somewhat... Whilst I'm here, could someone please clarify for me exactly what the "Installed size" field in dselect is measured in? I think that it's in kilobytes, but it would be strange to show it in a different format to the download size with no explanation. Rob Wilderspin -- "But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..." ----------------------= (send replies to rob@)
