Re: Dependency ordering

1997-04-13 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 13 Apr 1997, Richard Sharman wrote: > > Manoj is outlining a specification that would be great for the above > > method. Standardized components could be tied into mc and similar > > interfaces easily. I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > > on a .deb file and get a nice

Re: Dependency ordering

1997-04-13 Thread Richard Sharman
Paul Wade writes: ... > > Manoj is outlining a specification that would be great for the above > method. Standardized components could be tied into mc and similar > interfaces easily. I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control inf

Re: Deb file viewing [was: Dependency ordering]

1997-04-12 Thread Paul Wade
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > > > I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > > > on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control info and status. > > > > I don't know what setup you have, but my installation of mc doe

Re: Deb file viewing [was: Dependency ordering]

1997-04-12 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > > > I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > > on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control info and status. > I don't know what setup you have, but my installation of mc does just this. I have mc_3.2.1-1 here. Maarten

Deb file viewing [was: Dependency ordering]

1997-04-12 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 12 Apr 1997, Paul Wade wrote: > I would love to be able to hit the F3 (view) key in mc > on a .deb file and get a nice summary of control info and status. Last summer I wrote a deb file browser for emacs. Paul's remark reminded me to remind the list about it again. I'm sure it will be ma

Re: Dependency ordering

1997-04-12 Thread Paul Wade
It is apparent to me that Manoj has stepped into some sort of time warp here and come back to the present with a good vision of the future. I think we all should study his work carefully. Many of the points contained therein lead me to believe he has gone psychic on us. Do I need to wear a metalli

Re: Dependency ordering

1997-04-12 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 12, Jason Gunthorpe wrote > > I have just finished the next version of the package ordering > > libraries/tool which shall be uploaded tonight to master -- I think I > > have caught most of the design issues rasied on the lists (I am > > including the spec below). > > Hm, I think we

Re: Dependency ordering

1997-04-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 12 Apr 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > I have just finished the next version of the package ordering > libraries/tool which shall be uploaded tonight to master -- I think I > have caught most of the design issues rasied on the lists (I am > including the spec below). Hm, I th

Dependency ordering

1997-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
rest of the packages. * The package should offer configurable levels of verbosity and debug messages. * The package should keep track of which package provided a virtual package and use that in dependency ordering. * The package should be aware of virtual packages. Nice qualities of the