Hello,
Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: > On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... > > I would agree however, that a good description of each package would > > help you decide what to install. > > Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free > to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the > results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny. I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them). This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want. Each of them says basically "this is a better news transport program, replaces c-news". But which one should I get for my system? (Home computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.) Is that roughly what you were complaining about? =================================================== Exactly. The descriptions are not really that bad, but not good enough for a new user to pick what he needs. I thought that the debian website had a better package list with a searchable database, which is the tool that the new user could really use. Also when I try to install some package obtained by ftp (using dpkg -i) and it complains of a missing lib or other file I need to know what package provides the missing file(s). _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com