On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 03:38:07PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package > > on the dist"? If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to > > I think what he means is that when you install from CD, it rolls through > the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections, like: > Skipping deselected package: bash > Skipping deselected package: bang > Skipping deselected package: beat > > Rather than just going to the packages it wants to install. > I don't think that apt-get fixes this, because apt-get doesn't let you > install from CD. The issue is really with dselect's CD install method.
Seeing as we're already on the subject...I've thought about a cd method for apt before, currently I'm just using a file: method which is a bit of a paint as I have to mount the cd first. Isn't such a method already planned? Such a method would make nearly all of the dpkg methods obsolete. -- Sarel Botha
