Re: dselect.... missing the obvious?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@wireco.net>]

Chris Brown wrote:
> 
> Hello again and thanks for all the help this debian-newbie is getting!
> 
> I've done several (custom) installs of slink using dselect, and each
> time I waste a bunch of time searching for certain packages I
> want....  for instance ntp, sendmail, snmp, pine, joe
> 
> I am getting a little more familiar with the organization of the
> packages but it seems I must be doing it the difficult way, manually
> searching through the entire list!
> 
> I know about the re-order list options, but there must be a way to
> search the package list for a keyword, package name or catagory,
> how do I do this?


	I agree here.  Dselect's search function only applies to the
package name.  It doesn't allow a search for the contents of a
package's description nor does it support a search based on the
packages's section (base/X11/editors/misc, ad nauseum).  I'd like
to be able to view the package list as a collapsable tree where I
could, for example, collapse all lists except the list of files in
the X11 section.


> Second, once I have a "favorite" base system, can I integrate that
> into the dselect program for future installs?



	Read up on the --get-selection parameter for dpkg.  It may be
helpful.


> TIA,
> Chris

-- 
Ed C.