Previously joost witteveen wrote: > The main reason I introduced those "hints" (or keywords) in menu > is that > > - the number of installed packages varies on every debian system, and Same holds / will hold for available packages, especially now that there are other archives becoming available (venders, GNOME, KDE, update-packs, etc.). > - the `optimal' number of submenus in every menu depends on > both the user and the window-manager. Same also holds for pacakges I think, depending on how well the user knows the packages involved. > > However, the hints code is written now, and it could well be used > to setup directories populated with symlinks to the `real, static, current' > directories. Why? I was only thinking of using this in a frontend such as dselect or gnome-apt. I don't see the advantage of making those symlinks on the archive. Users could then set the paramaters for your hierarchy-creation function and see the changes immediately. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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