[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 25 Feb, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Nebu John Mathai wrote: > > > >> I tried to remove a package and under "Select..." selected to remove the > >> package. Then I went to "Remove..." and dselect removed almost every > >> package I had installed since the beginning (including the one I had asked > >> it for). > >> > >> I know I'm doing something stupid ... I just don't know what it is. > > > > Is it possible that you accidently pressed - or _ when one of the top few > > lines was highlighted: All Packages, or Up To Date Installed Packages etc. > > This should have a pretty dramatic effect! > > > > Hopefully in the new 'deity' project(the dselect replacment) something > like this will have a confirmation on it, like ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO > REMOVE *ALL* PACKAGES!!!. Currenlty dselect silently obeys and marks > all packages under the heading, yikes!
This is not yet (to my knowledge) implemented, but the UI design calls for a confirmation screen that will list all changes about to be done (a list of upgrades, a list of downgrades, a list of packages to remove, etc) to be confirmed by the user before anything is done. Later, Behan (Deity UI designer) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
