On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, George Bonser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Stringfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > How about a SVGALIB based program? That should fit on a floppy. > > Now we have a possible three!:) dselect, xselect, and vselect > > > > Kind of like make config, make menuconfig and make xconfig > > I agree that there should be some kind of bare-bones select for installation > but I think dselect has gotten to the 10-lbs in a 5-lb bag stage. I would > go for a select that installs the required packages then runs mselect > (menu-select) or xselect to pick and choose the other stuff. > > Colors can be useful to convey information without additional characters > causing information overload though that would limit the utility of the > program for people with poor color vision. Red in uppercase meaning purge, > red in lowercase meaning remove, yellow meaning dependancy problem (uppercase > is required, lowercase suggest), green means add or install, white or black > means hold and blue means that the package has a newer version available but > is not currently selected to be changed. > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Agree with the principle of a bare-bone select for installation and a more pleasant for a complete installation and see no trouble to have the two (or three) in a distribution. But I have to disagree to the principe to replace the info with colors. Used them to enhance an information but not to provide it. --------------------------------------------------------------- Little Billy goes to the zoo: " Looks mom! an elephant like those on the Internet! " =============================================================== Fabien Ninoles aka Baggus Mage || Not knowing where you go [EMAIL PROTECTED] || always lead you to a http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || Baggus End... --------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
