Re: Napster clients... Improvement of dselect
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 05:34:15PM +0200, Gediminas Paulauskas was heard to say:
[stuff about see-also]
Isn't Suggests: similar to "see also"? Maybe I should go reread that bit
of the packaging manual :)
> > Ability to email the maintainer of a package by launching pine, mutt etc
>
> I think questions will raise only when package s already installed and has
> problems or you want to send big THANKS to him. But great idea, on the other
> hand. instead of `dpkg -p <package>`, looking for mail and sending a mail,
> just look at dselect (deity?) and press 'm'...
Not only is this a nifty feature, but it should also be trivial to implement..
> > And much much more
>
> yeah, much... one of them, that some people asked, was size, which will all
> selected packages occupy when installed. Much windows applications' and other
> linux' distributions installers check if there is enough space to install
> and shows available and required sizes.
>
> so... much to improve. What about aptitude, console-apt or deity? i still
> prefer dselect...
The apt-based installers ought to be able to handle this, more or less
(aptitude, at least, can) -- there are problems with getting a totally accurate
view due to broken packages, packages which get installed due to fixing
broken dependencies in a pre-download phase, and so on -- but you can get
a rough estimate very easily.
Daniel
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