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Re: dpkg/dselect changes needed

'Bruce Perens wrote:'
>
>Dselect ease-of-use issues have been a problem for a year and there
>has been very little improvement. None of the people who have proposed
>to work on category-selection tools or a simpler interface to dselect
>have been able to get anything done. A simpler interface has been on your
>to-do list for at least a year.

Has anyone checked out
ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf/debian/selectmenu.tgz?  Is it a good
idea?  If so, then it's three-fourths implemented already.

>Decision:
>If we are to continue to support dpkg/dselect, providing a simpler user
>interface must be an overriding priority, and work on things like
>deb-make should be on the back-burner until that is done. We need to
>have a schedule for dselect improvements, some assurance that people
>are actually working on it, and regular progress reports.

Whoa!  I think a dpkg code cleanup and internals documentation is the
highest priority for Ian.  Once the code becomes easily maintainable by
others, we won't have this dependency on Ian's free time.  I
personally can wait for the superficial dselect stuff to get resolved.

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cjf@netaxs.com, cjf@onit.net       |    UNIX SIG Leader at PACS
http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf         |    (Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
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