On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved > > an > > d > > >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest > > version, > > >> it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but > > >> that's about it.. It doesn't support any of the more sophisticated > > things > > >> that people are clamoring for, and it requires X, GTK and a wack of > > ram. > > > > Michael> But it answers the people who think dselect is ugly and > > Michael> unintuitive and want something that runs under X. > > > > A quick and dirty answers is not really a good thing, don't > > you think? > > > > Competition is fine, let it get time to mature. The idea is > > simple: no new code after freeze. let this new system vie with apt at > > the next release. > > > > Since when have we considered scrapping quality just because > > people want something that ``looks pretty''? > > > > manoj > > If it's rather pretty and slightly more functional than dselect but that's > about it... then include it! Please! > > What I need from dselect is more screen space, more pixels, a less crampled > selection environment. It takes forver to navigate through dselect because > of the sheer number of packages. It seems that gdselect would help a lot > in this respect (I use 1600x1200 on X).
So... shall I "release" it using my pkg code (takes lots of memory, blah, blah, blah, but it works, and its written), or apt's class system? I now think its too silly to try to include it in the slink freeze; I will upload it to "unstable" after the freeze has happenned. However, making a note of it on the Debian web pages might not be such a bad idea. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.
