dselect; suggestions..

[Gregory Guthrie <gguthrie@mum.edu>]

Having just (again) had to fight through dselect for a new setup,

3 suggestions;

1) have dselect log (at least optionally).
  - using script is impractical, as it also presents all menus, status 
bars, and curses junk...

2) have it give some global navigation indication, as one ploughs through 
nearly infinite lists.
  - section 5/200,   item 55/824  -

3) have it provide some higher level feature aggregations, like the 
"simple" setup scripts. SO one could add network servers packages, GUI 
packages, etc.

Also, is each release checked for dependency errors? unsatisfied, or 
contradictory? Several times I exit Dselect, accepting all suggestions for 
things, and get problem reports. Often they are "xxx required, but not 
available".

Gregory Guthrie
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Gregory Guthrie
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