Re: dselect (or apt) wish list
On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, zbrown@lynx.neu.edu (Zack Brown) wrote:
>[lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped]
Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the
skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but
here's my wishlist for those that might care to listen.
I'd also like the option to have downloaded debs automatically copied
to a local "mirror". It would take up a lot of space, but I'd like to
be able to keep perhaps the last two versions of each package
installed, so that a downgrade could be performed without having to
download the previous version again (assuming that one can find it).
Getting rid of that help screen when entering the select phase would
be good, as an option.
Hmm, how about an automatic method for downloading source packages,
recompiling them and repackaging for use in the install phase? Useful
if you want to specify compiler options other than the defaults, read
from a config file. Oh, and they'd want to be stored in that local
mirror first, of course! Perhaps two source and two binary
directories is overdoing it somewhat...
Whilst I'm here, could someone please clarify for me exactly what the
"Installed size" field in dselect is measured in? I think that it's
in kilobytes, but it would be strange to show it in a different format
to the download size with no explanation.
Rob Wilderspin
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