Possibly the need for "Debian Lite" would be lessened with completion of a friendly dselect or replacement for dselect, that would present some reasonable options.
My biggest worry is the multiplication of packages. Perhaps it is an inevitable situation with the kind of distribution that Debian is, but I am beginning to be intimidated by the fragmentation of packages into this and that spin-off. Like *-altdev, for example. I still use dpkg, cause I don't seem to jibe with the dselect mentality---I live in fear of completely trashing my system, irrevocably, using dselect, and any other software that makes those kinds of global decisions for me. I'm never sure when I have everything turned off. I also think that it may be useful to incorporate new fields into the info file for each package, indicating more information about relationships to other packages than only "conflicts" and "requires". Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
