Package: base Severity: normal
Some packages install binaries and docs. Others start daemons, modify startup scripts, or change config files (e.g. bigcursor) when you install them. If you install them accidentally, you might regret it. There is no way for a user using dselect to tell the difference without a lot of work. For example, will ipkungfu actually change your firewall or do you have to run it first? The description field for social reasons will remain unreliable. It rarely contains information like "this does not start a daemon". To make the solution work for programs and humans, there should be a field in the db that indicates this. Maybe with a tag for binaries-and-docs-only for most packages and installs-daemon, modifies-startup, modifies-config, etc. for others. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
