Re: Intent to create a much nice WWW package viewer
--On Sat, Jul 4, 1998 9:14 pm -0400 "Kevin Atkinson" <kevina@clark.net>
wrote:
>> The apt you see at the moment is simply the dependency resolution,
>> downloading, and install-time package ordering system. The entirety of
the
>> apt project will include a smart new user interface which is capable of
at
>> least some of what you describe.
>
> 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.
You'd need to ask one of the deity team for the final word on that, but I
have been assuming that it would do that.
I have also made some noise suggesting that apt make source-package
downloading easier, and I believe that was heard too :-)
Jules
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