Re: Intent to create a much nice WWW package viewer
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> 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.
I don't wan't automatic installation. I just wan't to be able to
install packages in the incomming director without having to manually
download and install the files. Naturally an option like that will be
off by default and should only be used by those who know what the
incomming directory is.
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