dselect; suggestions..

2000-12-08 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Having just (again) had to fight through dselect for a new setup, 3 suggestions; 1) have dselect log (at least optionally). - using script is impractical, as it also presents all menus, status bars, and curses junk... 2) have it give some global navigation indication, as one ploughs through

Re: Dselect suggestions: mailing list created

1997-01-12 Thread Winfried Truemper
Pete Templin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : If any one else wishes to provide this service (in a more standard There is a mailinglist "debian-admintool@lists.debian.org" which works just as any other Debian mailing-list (if you don't know what this means, it's the wrong list for you). Please keep t

Dselect suggestions: mailing list created

1997-01-12 Thread Pete Templin
Hello all. As much as I think that the many suggestions about dselect are beneficial, I'd like to see the debian-user list return to general usage hints, etc. As such, I've created a mailing list for dselect suggestions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe, send email t

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > Maybe dselect can have an option such 'make a virtual package from my > currently installation' and let you edit, add and change the > configuration. This is called: dpkg --get-selections [ ...] get list of selections to stdout dpkg --set-selections set package sele

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-14 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Ami Ganguli wrote: > > > > > My suggestion is to come up with a few standard machine roles > > > like "network server", "Novell client", "development machine", etc. > > > Why not m

Re: DSelect Suggestions...

1996-11-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
Ami Ganguli wrote: > An "install almost > everything" option that doesn't result in any conflicts would be > nice too. After starting from some reasonable base, users could > customize by adding or removing packages as today. If you say so, but I can't imagine anybody doing this other than for te