On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Zack Brown wrote: > Hi, > > For what it's worth, here's a wishlist for debian install scripts (in no > particular order). > > 1) There doesn't seem to be any order regarding which packages are > downloaded first. I suggest that, by default, dependencies should be > downloaded before the files that depend upon them. Likewise, there doesn't > seem to be any order in installation. I suggest the same thing for that. > It would be nice indeed.
> 2) If there are a lot of .deb files sitting around, this slows down dselect > by producing a lot of screen garbage during the "install" phase. I suggest > that .deb files that have already been installed (or that have not been > marked for installation) should not be displayed during this phase. > give try to dpkg-mountable, it's one of its features wich make me prefer this method to cdrom or mounted in dselect > 3) At the end of the "install" phase, dselect asks if it should delete > installed packages. I suggest that either the default be changed to 'no', or > else it be made possible to change the default via a config file. I really > hate having a single keypress be able to wipe out days of downloading. > why don't just you move your .deb in a safer place once dselect end its job ? [snip] > 6) In the "install" phase, when dselect asks if I would like to select the > individual packages, it would be fantastic if I could run up and down the > list, choosing and unchoosing various items, while seeing a dynamic update > of how much total space will be required. Also, even better would be the I'd really like to have such a feature when I want to make a demo of debian : "See how much wonder you can do with debian in just 400 Meg" and arghh : install interrupted because I've selected 410 Meg :-((. Yes, I could prepare the install once for all but I think that showing that the install is not that difficult has more impact than coming with an already prepared HD... [snip] > 8) Last but not least, during the "select" phase, when searching for > packages, only package names are searchable. I would really like to search > descriptions as well. > Searching on description is appealing to me too. -- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED]
