Dear Mr. Dienes and Mr. Jackson, Following email was sent to Ian yesterday (the author of dselect), but never reached him, so I send it now to the maintainers (Klee and Ian), hoping you can contact the author (Ian).
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: An improvement to dselect Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:33:35 +0200 From: Conrado Badenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: University of Valencia To: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dear Mr. Jackson I have upgraded some packages from slink to potato in order to have the newest version of package xanim (to see Star Wars videos). Potato's xanim wanted potato's libc6 and xlib6g, libc6 wanted potato's libc6-dev, they conflicted some slink packages which I had to purged, xanim-modules wanted potato's python-base, which wanted potato's libncurses4 and libreadlineg2, which wanted potato's bash. Now that I have checked that newest version of xanim and xanim-modules do not support video codec for Star Wars video files, I would like to return to previous state, but in dselect there is no way to do it easly. I would like dselect's Select menu option to have a keystroke for downgrading packages (+ is for install or UPgrade, what about * for DOWNgrade?), without having to remove installed packages and install them again from slink (which in case of libc6 would leave system useless in case of a blackout between removing and installing). Thank you very much for your attention. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34 - 963 864 350 SPAIN | Fax: +34 - 963 983 385
