>That's right. I need someone to design a completely different user >interface for the package selection function in dselect. The current >list interface will survive and just have "- wizard mode" tacked onto >the menu item. Most people will use "- normal mode" or whatever we >decide to call it.
I think that the list of packages should be split up some way in order to reduce the feeling of overload one can get when looking at a list of hundreds. The current organization into sections is probably a good place to start, though cross-section dependencies may make this hard. Sections like devel are also quite crowded, so possibly there should be some other criterion (e.g. distinguishing between devel/ packages which are `standard' and those which are merely `recommended' and so on.) There should probably be a *really* dumbed down version which just asks `do you want to install the development tools' and such questions. But I think there may need to be a level between this and the current dselect as well. -- Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/