On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > > playing dependency watchdog, after all--but I can't seem to find the "do > > as I say, or else" switch. Is there one? > No, but it's on the wishlist. grep the dselect source for `fixme'.
Will do. > You can override dselect's ideas of what to do by using capital > letters of various kinds. Try using `h' and browsing the list of > keystrokes. There will be more information about this in the help > screens. I'll check into this. I have to admit to having minimalist tendencies that make dpkg more appealing. > Is this other Info reader a Debian package ? If not, why not ? :-) Well, the other info reader is the JED editor. I actually have a debianised package for jed, but it's in ELF as it depends on my debianised shared library for slang, which is also ELF. I've done 99% of the work for both of these, but haven't had the time to finish that last 1% (mostly fancier stuff like intelligent handling of conffiles), and since they're in ELF, I didn't think they were appropriate to put out as yet. I plan to get them 100% this weekend, and if the ftp server is back up, I can make 'em available to those using ELF. Oh, and as a side note, I have a mirror of debian at lot49.med.miami.edu:/pub/debian, though I have to ask that people take it easy during the day or I'll have to disallow access --- it's the Pentium 90 on my desk, so it has to stay usable. > (The existence of `info' at the start of the dependency list is often > important to get the default right - see the various *.txt files in > project/standards.) I did a lot of work with this about ten days ago (got two days off from work because of the hurricane that didn't hit Miami), but haven't gotten around to finishing --- and since it's my first package, my progress isn't as fast as I'd like. Mike. -- "Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary."
