Hi apt-get package maintainer(s), I hope I got the right mail adress for this, if not can you tell me which one I should have?
Because of things I saw coming over the debian-user list over the last few months I though of a few things to improve apt-get. I thought of the following: - Over the mailing list lots of quetions come regarding package installation and such, the amount of 'newbies' who know about apt-get is very limited (as far as I can tell). I think they should be pointed to it. In order to do so I got the following idea: point out to apt somewhere during installation, I think the best place for this would be before we start dselect. I know we can't just make a point out to anything, it would only be irritating, but I think apt-get is a thing we should point to because it's something almost anybody will want to use but not everybody knows it exists and how to use it. - The seconds thing is some kind of function to go back after an upgrade without having to download again (the old versions that is), this because during upgrades things go wrong often and not everybody has a real good connection or a local mirror ;) - The last thing is something I've had a problem with a while ago when I upgraded from Slink to Potato. It's more a thing of dpkg, but apt-get can solve it. The problem is it gave dependencies-versions conflicts when upgrading perl and libc6, I had to use dpkg with all kinds of force options to get my system upgraded. The main problem was that some packages depended on perl 5.004 (or older lib6), so dpkg gave errors while later in upgrade perl was going to be upgraded to perl 5.005 (what was the needed version). I hope you can use these advices one way or another and one more thing: keep up the good work! ;) Ron Rademaker
