Re: A simple problem with dselect ...
servis@purdue.edu wrote:
>
> On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote:
> >
> >> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the
> >> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every
> >> package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked
> >> it for).
> >>
> >> I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is.
> >
> > Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few
> > lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc.
> > This should have a pretty dramatic effect!
> >
>
> Hopefully in the new 'deity' project(the dselect replacment) something
> like this will have a confirmation on it, like ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO
> REMOVE *ALL* PACKAGES!!!. Currenlty dselect silently obeys and marks
> all packages under the heading, yikes!
This is not yet (to my knowledge) implemented, but the UI design calls
for a confirmation screen that will list all changes about to be done (a
list of upgrades, a list of downgrades, a list of packages to remove,
etc) to be confirmed by the user before anything is done.
Later,
Behan
(Deity UI designer)
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