Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)
Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org> wrote:
>i just removed netscape from my system.
>
>an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the
>main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't
>be deleted, but i don't know which one or why.
Those errors are often spurious, especially if you're purging and
they're directories containing conffiles that haven't been removed yet.
>at the very least dselect should prompt you to "enter a key" when an
>error occurs...
Normally in my experience it does, but at any rate you'll notice that
when you quit dselect the screen with errors on it is restored (unless
there's something screwy with your terminal, that is).
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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