Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:10:08AM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: | >A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they | >can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple | >programs to be combined to perform comple

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 20:28 27/11/2001 -0500, dman wrote: A GUI can do the things the designer thought of quite easily, but they can't do anything else easily. Pipes and filters allow fairly simple programs to be combined to perform complex and unique operations quite easily, once the learning curve of the utiliti

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:57:46PM -0200, Vitor Silva Souza wrote: | At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | > > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for | > > dpkg, sort of like a dselect for X. Any suggestions? I'm using potato | > > and don't want to upgrade to

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
At 14:49 27/11/2001 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: It probably didn't show any matches because the string "dpkg frontend for X" didn't appear in the archives. Try separating the words with ;. Thanks. I'll try that. > Question two: I'm looking for a good graphical frontend for > dp

Re: Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Vitor Silva Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone, > > Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on > http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the > Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter > of the selection? I se

Two questions (Archive search + Dpkg frontend for X)

2001-11-27 Thread Vitor Silva Souza
Hello everyone, Question one: when I'm using the archive search form on http://lists.debian.org/search.html, if I select all quarters on the Date Filter, does it search in all quarters or just the first quarter of the selection? I searched for "dpkg frontend for X" and it returned "No matche