On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:00:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:20:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The change *to* Enter was the thing that broke dselect for those of us > > who have been using it since woody and earlier. Switching back to the > > old behaviour unbroke it. As the changelog message states, encouraging > > people to press Enter in dselect is dangerous. > > > > Use 'dselect --expert' if you don't want to see the help messages at > > all. > > How about a way to suppress the help screen permanently, such as an > environment option or dotfile? > > I can't get rid of it quickly enough. What other program shows you its > help screen every time you run it? And space to dismiss the help screen > is not very intuitive.
since it is a help message, it could well tell the user how to get rid of it permanently, couldn't it? something like: If you want to get rid of this help message use the --expert command-line switch or set the expert option in file /etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg. wouldn't it be appropriate in both the opening and conflict resolution help screens? my last 2 cents to the topic... cheers domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
