Re: Diety UI draft
On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Richard Braakman wrote:
> I think that this may itself be a problem. I have found that the Packages
> file is my main use of bandwidth when I access my local Debian mirror.
> During a regular scan for updates, simply checking the packages available
> from all sources may be more costly than the total size of the packages
> actually chosen for installation.
Agreed. As it is now, I only download the Packages file for the hamm/
distro.
Could some "time-stamp" be included, so if a Packages file hasnt been
updated since the last "fetching", it wont be redownloaded? Also, this
"Packages" busines... How can I have more than one? Could we have it
named Packages-1.3, Packages-1.2, Packages-devel, so it matches the
various versions of debian?
I would really like to be able to downgrade easily. This might fix a
small problem I have.
Oh! 1 more thing. Is there an easy way to "reinstall" a package? I
would like to be able to "hilight" a package, then hit some button, (R?)
then it would download and "reinstall" the package for me from scratch.
Peace out.
Don Dibos
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