Use 'dselect --expert' if you don't want to see the help messages at
all.
Thanks that was just what I was looking for.
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On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:00:23PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:20:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The change *to* Enter was the thing that broke dselect for those of us
> > who have been using it since woody and earlier. Switching back to the
> > old behaviour unbr
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:00:26AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> >
> > if the fact of hitting Enter to dismiss the help message confuses the
> > user at the point he instead commits changes, it looks like we need
> > another way t
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:52:47PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Exactly, I agree *entirely*.
> >
> > dselect has always used space to dismiss help messages and the current
> > stable (woody) version of dselect still uses
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:52:47PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:19 +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> >
> > IMHO people confused by dselect should switch to another dpkg/apt
> > frontend and not break it.
> >
> Exactly, I agree *entirely*.
>
> dselect has always use
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:00 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:20:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The change *to* Enter was the thing that broke dselect for those of us
> > who have been using it since woody and earlier. Switching back to the
> > old behaviour unbroke it
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 03:20:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> The change *to* Enter was the thing that broke dselect for those of us
> who have been using it since woody and earlier. Switching back to the
> old behaviour unbroke it. As the changelog message states, encouraging
> people to press E
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:19:26AM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > dpkg (1.10.26) unstable; urgency=low
> > * Revert to current 'stable' behaviour of Space/Enter/'Q' in the dselect
> > help screen, Space leaves the help screen and Enter and 'Q' do nothing.
> > It's dangerous to encour
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 11:19 +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > dpkg (1.10.26) unstable; urgency=low
> > * Revert to current 'stable' behaviour of Space/Enter/'Q' in the dselect
> > help screen, Space leaves the help screen and Enter and 'Q' do nothing.
> > It's dangerous to encourage us
Domenico Andreoli wrote:
[snip]
> oh no, these are bad news :(
>
> i found it very fast using Enter to exit the help message. i'm not
> talking about the first one shown on entering package selection but the
> (usually "many") ones shown before dependency conflict resolution. it
> was everything i
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