Wow

["Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>]

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I just installed apt .2 tonight because someone suggested I look at it and
that a lot had been done since I last looked at deity.  Well I looked, and
apt seemed to be moving along, but not really much more usable.

What I did see however was the apt method which was added to dselect.
It's a bit rough on the UI still---I gave up on the access menu in dselect
and just started editing /etc/apt/sources.list by hand.  <g>  Perhaps you
might consider a slang-type interface to replace that function at a later
point?  I expected the lack of prettyness there considering .2 version and
all, but a text GUI for that aspect would allow adding and removing of
access methods and possibly even reordering them for preference in sites.

I noticed the http method was all that is implemented.  When I interrupted
getting of a package file because I kinda screwed something up and went
back in later it seemed to continue the file where I left off with it.  I
was not aware http SUPPORTED reget at all.

And then, this...

The following packages have been kept back
   procmail kernel-source-2.0.33
47 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
14105420 bytes to download, 244000 bytes needed after install.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y


All I can say, I -LIKE- it!  Hope to see a more traditional ftp support in
it soon.  I'll use it with http for now just because I like being able to
get all the dists, not just the standard or the non-US ones.  Getting
non-US took some coaxing though.  Right now it's getting something like
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/../../../debian-non-US/hamm
because it seemed to want to stick dists on there no matter what I did.
Perhaps a symlink on master from dists/non-US to /debian-non-US would be
helpful?  (Of course, I've asked about that in #debian more than once..)


Keep up the good work.  Debian may not be trying to be better than Redhat,
but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to be.  =>  This is a Major Step In
The Right Direction<tm>.  (this from the person always pushing easy to
use/install/maintain Linux for the masses..)

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