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Re: dpkg.log reworked



On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 09:32:49AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> This still seems like you're trying to put wallpaper up over a hole in
> the wall to me..  I don't see how this really solves any of the problems
> with dpkg's interactivity or that sort of thing.  At best ig gives you a
> way to see what the output of the installation was selectively.  Arguably
> this is a good thing, a very good thing really.  But this seems like the
> wrong way to do it.

Theres, the problem. This is meant to solve interactivity problems. It's
meant to solve the problem of too much info flying by on a PII 450 that
is shooting over 500 packages into the new system and to keep admins
from having to baby sit the machine during a 486 install for 3 hours
just see all the little tidbit (but sometimes very important) package
messages that go by.

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