On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > 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. not good enough. i _want_ to see them. > >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). not these errors. i appreciate the fact that some errors are more serious than others. that doesn't give dselect the right to enforce its idea of "importancy" on me. i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring that, i maintain that it should give me the option of seeing them, which it currently doesn't. peter
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