Re: Intent to create a much nice WWW package viewer
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:14:08PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> I figured that. Will apt intelligently handle packages from different
> distributions? I know dselect does a horrible job of it (it tries to
> upgrade everything and not just what you select) ideally I would like it
> to be able to show the tree of several releases and also be able to deal
> with stuff in incoming and other non-offical areas with out having to
> resort to dpkg.
Automatic installation from incoming is EViL.
There is a reason why packages don't move instantaneously from
Incoming to the distribution -- they are manually checked
(on the first upload at least) and placed.
Hamish
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