Bug#7093: marked as done (dselect: hyperjump into conflict screen is poor UI design)
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There is no reason for dselect to jump straight into the conflict
resolution screen as soon as the user types "+" (or whatever). This is
jarring, confusing, and not even the best way to deal with the
situation. Much better would be to put some sort of flag on the screen
saying "conflicts". Oftentimes, I *know* that package X requires
package Y, but package Y is just farther down in the list. If dselect
wouldn't be so #$* hyper, I would get to the required package, mark it,
and maybe I wouldn't have to see the hated conflict screen at all.
Bottom line: dselect should only put up the conflict screen at the end
of the "select" session. It should deal with all conflicts then, and
optionally allow the user to go back to "select" mode at that point if
need be. I think this would go a long way toward easing Debian users'
trauma in using dselect.
-Randy
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 02:14:10 -0400
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
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1685: dpkg-split command line parsing.
My take on this, the options expected aren't in a compatible format,
so it can't be made GNU style. Also the man page shows that the
complained about format is expected. IMO, if it's documented as such,
then it should be acceptible. GNU is not the endall argument format.
16217: prompting for clearing avail on updates in dselect
dselect doesn't seem to do this anymore
10263: segfaults on upgrade
Very old bug concerning libc5->libc6 upgrades. I don't think we have any
way to really reproduce it, plus the reports show that the cause was
possibly found from some dependencies, but the original poster never
responded back.
4074: conffile's left behind
Not a current problem with dpkg it seems
1037: dselect help screen
Ian said he would fix this in the report when he released the C version of
dpkg, that seems to have occured (bug report is vague on what the actual bug
is, and attempts at clarifying have failed).
Ben....more to come
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