On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:02:30PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect? What kind of
> installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?
It doesn't require it, it's just a sensible policy to install what you
know you need and then go wandering through looking for things you might
need (particularly given the size of the distribution - if you install
everything that looks interesting you'll end up with a whole load of
stuff sitting around on your disk that gets forgotten).
A running count of disk space used would be useful, but you also have to
worry about which partitions have how much space, caches which may be
created and so on.
> Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty
> minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't*
> installing?
That's been fixed - use dpkg-multicd, apt or some other current method.
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