On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (a) Running "update" fails with the message > "/usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp not found" I looked and, sure enough, there is > no /usr/lib/apt/methods/ftp. But there wasn't before and apt worked just > fine. Where can I get it? >
Hmm. No clue. Jason? Mitch? Ben? > (b) I finally figured out how those mysterious columns to the left work. > They're toggles, right? Toggle [D]elete on/off, [K]eep on/off, etc. But > why toggles? I was trying to click on the K column to set my packages > which > I accidentally tried to [D]elete back to [K]eep. I had to click on Delete. > I can't see any case where I would want to have a package set for two > states > simultaneously, and I don't think Apt will let me. I reiterate my earlier > suggestion: please, please, if you do nothing else, _represent state > changes > with a set of radio buttons_. The current system is entirely broken. I > suggest maybe putting the buttons _below_ the tabbed > Description/Related/Special/Other area. (incidentally, all those tabs > except Description are empty) > Do something about this though, it's the most fundamental operation in > a package manager and is unnecesarily complicated by gnome-apt's current > UI design. > I'll have to try radio buttons and see what it looks like. The behavior is really a bit non-standard for radio buttons, IMO. But about a million people have made that suggestion. Havoc
