Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread john
Zack Brown writes: > Someone said 'apt' does. But 'apt' also deletes the package files once they > are installed (it doesn't even ask if that's what I want), which is another > wish I raised below. hasler/~ ll /var/cache/apt/archives/ total 335 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318440 Oct 16 13:

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Gossamer
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote... > > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete > > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no', or > > else it be made possible to change the default via a config file. I really > > hate having a s

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: > Bottom line: this is a very small and easy-to-grant wish, but for those who > want it, it's a big, hard-to-get-around problem. i.e. it prevents me from > using apt, since apt deletes installed packages automatically; and with > dselect, I have to be *

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list (fwd)

1998-11-12 Thread Michael Beattie
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:23:05 -0500 (EST) From: Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: dselect (or apt) wish list I'll try to respond to several people's responses in this one message, to save space. Sorry for