Re: problems with `dselect'

[ams@kemisten.nu (Alfred M. Szmidt)]

* Robert Millan writes:
> Dselect should use settrans and friends directly when the __GNU__
> macro is defined, and mount otherwise (for both GNU/Linux and GNU/*BSD).

One shouldn't use the __GNU__ macro.  Instead fix the scripts in dpkg
([dpkg]/methods) or make our mount command more GNU/Linux friendly.  I
would suggest fixing the mount command.  It probably just doesn't
support some silly option that dselect wants to use.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt


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