Re: More apt bugs
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
> (a) Running "update" fails with the message
> "/usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp not found" I looked and, sure enough, there is
> no /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp. But there wasn't before and apt worked just
> fine. Where can I get it?
>
Hmm. No clue. Jason? Mitch? Ben?
> (b) I finally figured out how those mysterious columns to the left work.
> They're toggles, right? Toggle [D]elete on/off, [K]eep on/off, etc. But
> why toggles? I was trying to click on the K column to set my packages which
> I accidentally tried to [D]elete back to [K]eep. I had to click on Delete.
> I can't see any case where I would want to have a package set for two states
> simultaneously, and I don't think Apt will let me. I reiterate my earlier
> suggestion: please, please, if you do nothing else, _represent state changes
> with a set of radio buttons_. The current system is entirely broken. I
> suggest maybe putting the buttons _below_ the tabbed
> Description/Related/Special/Other area. (incidentally, all those tabs
> except Description are empty)
> Do something about this though, it's the most fundamental operation in
> a package manager and is unnecesarily complicated by gnome-apt's current
> UI design.
>
I'll have to try radio buttons and see what it looks like. The behavior is
really a bit non-standard for radio buttons, IMO. But about a million
people have made that suggestion.
Havoc
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