"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think it would be a good idea to add a "Keywords:" line to the control > information for Debian packages. This would be an extension to the > "Section:" field with the section being considered the primary keyword. > > A user-interface utility would then allow the user to narrow/expand > the list of package presented. For example: ^^^^^^ > God, god, don't (necesary) need that fancy interface. Add a submenu in curent dselect betwen main-menus selct entry and the select screen. In that submenu You can chose one of the sections or all sections. Dselects standard way of going to the next menu item when returning from previus selection will make it real nice to browse all the sections one at the time. Keywords is god too, but a posability to view one section at the time will help allot (it's easy to get lost in 1.1's pakage-list, 1.2 is twice as big right?).
The dependency/conflict screen must of corse show all involved pakages, regardless what section they in. > > Sections: > > [ ] admin [ ] base [ ] comm [ ] contrib > [ ] devel [ ] doc [ ] editors [ ] experimental > [ ] games [ ] graphic [ ] smail [ ] math > [ ] misc [ ] net [ ] news [ ] nonfree > [ ] shells [ ] sound [ ] text [ ] x11 > contrib experimental and nonfree maybe should be prioritys (right term for Required, important... ?) rather then sections? Probably complicated but an editor is an editor even if exprimental or nonfree..... I do like this prioritys. don't take them out of dselect - it's a graet hint to novice users. Like them so much I think they usefull to build an esy install tool on. EASY INSTALL TOOL SUGESTION Let the user chose a priority fore eatch section then install all pakages whit that or higer priority. Possably adding 'none' as an option on some sections (You dont need games at all). The install should be done in the least likely to break order. Debian is a Big and complicated. It's in the nature of an 'complet' Linux (U**X - or anny 'real' OS) distrubution. To make things worse, its a constantly moving target. The install must be able to stand some dependesy bugs.... I dont know the safest order but to give on exampel: Install all pakages of higest priority, then take every priority in order. For every priority start whith the base section follewed by the admin section and then the rest. In this way will the info that controlls the easy install be visible in dselect. That makes it easy to know what You have changed from the default and esy to recover to the default if You get 'lost'. This easy install tool will automaticly follow debians evulosion as pakages change priority and new sections is introdused. Thats a good thing too.... I do know You can make selections i dselect on sections and on different prioritys for eatch sections much as this easy install tool is sugested to. I think it's still is a point in an tool that makes that even MORE easy... Hope You can stand (and understand) my English... /Lars -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lah www.micropp.se / Micro++ OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
