Regarding the "wish list" for the dselect replacement: 1 A "what if" command: Tell me what you would do if I said "do it". I found with dselect I'd somehow told it to remove lots of things I hand't meant to, so recently I've been using dpkg directly rather than trying to figure out dselect.
2 A "merge in" command: Someone mentioned the get_selections and set_selections which is useful. But if I understand correctly set_selections replaces everything. I think it would be nice to have a way of "adding it to the current set from something". I doubt if it would be useful for single machine situations, but for an installation of several machines one might have a "core set" which is on all machines, but a few extra sets of packages which are enabled on other sets of machines. 3 In the less important but nice to have category: Choice of interfaces: e.g a perl/tk interface and an emacs interface. Richard.
