-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I just installed apt .2 tonight because someone suggested I look at it and that a lot had been done since I last looked at deity. Well I looked, and apt seemed to be moving along, but not really much more usable.
What I did see however was the apt method which was added to dselect. It's a bit rough on the UI still---I gave up on the access menu in dselect and just started editing /etc/apt/sources.list by hand. <g> Perhaps you might consider a slang-type interface to replace that function at a later point? I expected the lack of prettyness there considering .2 version and all, but a text GUI for that aspect would allow adding and removing of access methods and possibly even reordering them for preference in sites. I noticed the http method was all that is implemented. When I interrupted getting of a package file because I kinda screwed something up and went back in later it seemed to continue the file where I left off with it. I was not aware http SUPPORTED reget at all. And then, this... The following packages have been kept back procmail kernel-source-2.0.33 47 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 14105420 bytes to download, 244000 bytes needed after install. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y All I can say, I -LIKE- it! Hope to see a more traditional ftp support in it soon. I'll use it with http for now just because I like being able to get all the dists, not just the standard or the non-US ones. Getting non-US took some coaxing though. Right now it's getting something like http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/frozen/../../../debian-non-US/hamm because it seemed to want to stick dists on there no matter what I did. Perhaps a symlink on master from dists/non-US to /debian-non-US would be helpful? (Of course, I've asked about that in #debian more than once..) Keep up the good work. Debian may not be trying to be better than Redhat, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have to be. => This is a Major Step In The Right Direction<tm>. (this from the person always pushing easy to use/install/maintain Linux for the masses..) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBNSYZURLUBdYbSei5AQFVzgf+J2U3mznR/mODOwusHn1kqDB2cwSrGmsA EXGWH4gh2u7xC6ue+fR4wi6D9za+a53x8wGua2jJxiWN496pF5UZXQ3INV3BrGG1 Obu4ptTHxWuCV1LlIxb145W+J9CKXzj3LlGHccg2QxLt1mSrgAVX/gV7UwEKJa+Z X+GBsUn+nhw/aKbFNTXDErrcTPE/RPdbsdTSq2YxAlP6KBWlMmFsVvQR3DSuU1Nt hQJesmbungl/qwHjYPuRu6cVE5csXZQH08b2dtPZ/yNPIzFcRCd/W8/EQjO8QADH q0h9T5Gs1JhGnAVZNSJlW4MXFZzYXzyYZqfKWtAu6YeR8JyTAerbFQ== =sw37 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
