Sean Estabrooks wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:48:26 +0100
Nicolas Mailhot <Nicolas.Mailhot(a)laPoste.net> wrote:
>I don't see the point of doing an incomplete installation and then try
>to fixup it afterwards. This is no way to help users - it's not as if
>package selection was interfering with normal installation.
>
>Individual selection has been there for years. People rely on it.
Hey Nicolas,
The theory as i understand it is to focus energy into tools that can be
used both during _and_ after an installation, for the life of a system.
Thus increasing their usefulness and amount of testing. I'm not
advocating less functionality but the comments of the people who suggested
these ideas made sense to me.
I agree with the basic idea. But I don't see how killing a feature
that's been there from 5.2 at least is going to improve other tools. It
should be in low maintenance mode by now IMHO.
I'm not asking for fancy trees - just the basic full flat list with a
chackbox per package will do. The only thing it exposes is bad package
dependencies and guess what ? apt/yum/up2date need sane dependencies too
to work. Forcing a few preselected installations on the user only hides
bugs.
Cheers,
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Nicolas Mailhot