On Wed, 1 May 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One irritating feature of dselect as it is at the moment is this: > if I start dselect and add only one or two packages, it prints the > entire list of packages on my screen, one by one, along with the > 'skipping deselected package foo', or 'package bar is already installed' > messages. I would like to see these messages omitted, at least by > default.
Having dselect going through all the packages even when you're adding one or two is especially annoying when you're getting Debian from a CD-ROM. Because then it takes something like 2-3 mins even if you're adding only one package. That's basically what made me stop using dselect. Christian
