ce caused.
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to Debian
> will scream blue murder if it starts being "/My Variable Data/Logs", and
> that group is important to us.
Note that there is at least one project which is looking at doing exactly
that while retaining backwards compatability (GoboLinux). It may be worth,
on the long ter
ried using it, yes. I got this message:
>>dselect: requested operation requires the superuser privilege
>>
>> Yet another example of an obscure error message. :-)
>
> Uh, no, it isn't. Superuser, aka, root. But not always root. [...]
How about a message such as:
dselect: to select an installation source, superuser privileges are required
(try logging in as root)
It's still accurate, but now it's helpful as well, and uses a more
friendly voice. (This also changes "access method" to "installation
source", which makes more sense to me.)
Incidentally, I'm no UI expert, as I'll be the first to admit.
Unfortunately we don't seem to have many of those in the free software
community.
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On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:33:19AM -0700, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Part of the problem I had was that I had a vague understanding that
> > there was something called "apt", but that I didn't know what it was
> >
the user is
completely overwhelmed by the list of packages, which is not helped by
the fact that each one comes with a dozen or more libraries,
extensions, and so forth.
Anyway. Just a few thoughts. :-)
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