-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, [ISO-8859-2] Pawe³ Sakowski wrote:
> Debian 1.3.1 > > Why does installation of packages via dselect last so long? It checks (I > don't know why) all the packages on the cd. What for? It already knows > which packages need installation. You are right. Now Debian 2.0 contains a much better tool to install packages called "mountable", which will appear as one more dselect access method as soon as you install the "dpkg-mountable" package. This new dselect method is *much* faster and makes the old "cdrom", "mounted", "harddisk", and "nfs" methods to be virtually obsolete. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNcnp9yqK7IlOjMLFAQF9kwP/YW24/NxkqhMJzrZlouIVh/cVq2+MQxb6 TD+iej3Q6XgOEpkNAFyb9I58IdLG7Gy8D/neiDCkIwI/2PlDsUqo5XzVD5q0wZtm hIaHSwWmlNsUHY3EuWIJ6kPydNXBhPfAJbK6bqmv4i/R90LZLw8Fe6nkEH5jc0IA nq/acLhexIQ= =bXVd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
