Bug#1386: it's not obvious what dselect is doing
Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.75
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:52:10 -0400 (EDT), dhs@firefly.com (David H. Silber) said:
> I suggest that each issue be registered as a seperate bug with debian-bugs.
I wrote:
> I used dselect (dpkg 0.93.75) for the first time this weekend. It
> seems very powerful. Although I feel much more comfortable with it
> after having spent a few hours with it, there were some rude shocks
> in learning how to use it:
> 2. It took a while to figure out what dselect was doing when it puts
> you in the dependency screen. A header explaining what's going on
> (e.g., "DEPENDENCY RESOLUTION MENU FOR PACKAGE xxx") would be
> wonderful.
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