Re: Thoughts on new messages?
On 16 Oct 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> >>>>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> Jason> I've fiddled around with adding more informative messages,
> Jason> you think this is going too far?
>
> Jason> Wakko{jgg}~/work/apt/build/bin#./apt-get install eterm
> Jason> Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependancy
> Jason> Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may
> Jason> mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if
> Jason> you are using the unstable distribution that some required
> Jason> packages have not yet been created.
>
> Excellent. I'd add ".. or they have not been propagated to your
> mirror from the Incoming queue on the master Debian server."
I was tempted to put something like that in, but it occurse to me that
someone reading that might think that if they went to 'ftp.debian.org'
(alot of people think it is the master server) they'd get better results.
This is not a thought I want people to have.. How about just adding 'or
moved out of Incoming' the mirror list does show incoming mirrors...
> You could also use this information when a broken package doesn't
> list a preferred dependancy when it depends on a virtual package
> but no real alternative.
I thought about this, but it yeilds a really messy and hard to read
display in many cases.. That's devling into the area where you do need a
GUI to fix the troubles..
Jason
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