On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> An idea about `menu':
>
> I think the a frustrating thing with Linux is finding out what's
> available. I think what would attract people to Linux is *showing* them
> all that's available.
You mean package-wise? Generally I check out www.debian.org, altho
certain packages aren't available from there, such as the pgp ones.
Maybe it'd be usefull if a search for packages which are known to exist
but can't or aren't located on master could point us to a mirror which
has them?
> Maybe making a menu entry for each package (instead of commands) would
> be good enough, or even better if a package hold dozens of realted commands.
>
> I don't know if Debian provides enough info to do this in /var/lib/dpkg.
> My perl or awk skills may be up to the task of extracting the required
> info to build the menu. What's missing is an X tool to display the
> package description from a file (or a part extracted from a file). I
> don't do windows...
It'd probably be pretty easy to write something basic but useful in
tcl/tk, which is a relatively standard installation. It has lots of
"display this text"-sortof commands. And it frontends well to most things.
Will
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