On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:02:30PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect? What kind of > installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?
It doesn't require it, it's just a sensible policy to install what you know you need and then go wandering through looking for things you might need (particularly given the size of the distribution - if you install everything that looks interesting you'll end up with a whole load of stuff sitting around on your disk that gets forgotten). A running count of disk space used would be useful, but you also have to worry about which partitions have how much space, caches which may be created and so on. > Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty > minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't* > installing? That's been fixed - use dpkg-multicd, apt or some other current method. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/