Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-17 Thread Bill Leach
Steve, it is not unreasonable to want dselect (or apt) to be configurable such that you can choose to have it not do anything that you do not explicitely request it to do. I have maintained a partial mirror of debian for quite some time now and still would find it handy if dselect were to have a m

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 09:34:22PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism > >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. > > Exactly. I ha

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism > >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. > > Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return I have

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That happens not to be the case. If the reverse were true: that all >> packages were held be default, and I had to do two ops to turn them >> t be upgraded. I would do it. If I had to release them one by one, >> that would be unacceptable.

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On 16 May 1998 00:22:29 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Steve> Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return >Steve> I have been getting a flippant attitude of "It isn't that many >Steve> ketstrokes." In fact, one person has said that if the >Steve> situation were reverse he(?)'

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive >> criticism is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people >> leave the project. Steve> Exactly. I h

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Art Lemasters
Steve wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism > >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. > > Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in ret

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 16 May 1998 10:40:23 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >We are all volunteers here. Generally speaking, constructive criticism >is welcome -- unconstructive criticism just makes people leave the project. Exactly. I have been giving constructive critism and in return I have been getting a

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 10:59:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 1998 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ellis wrote: > > >Go to the select screen, hit 'o', go to the top of the updated packages > >section (the header), hit '='. There, all the updated packages are on > >hold. > > My isn

Re: Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Steve" == Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> That is what a nice, simple command line parameter or Steve> configuration would be good for, we'd both have out default Steve> behavior, now wouldn't we? Patches shall probably be gratefully accepted. manoj -- "Exp

Fwd: Re: dselect oddities

1998-05-15 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 15 May 1998 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ellis wrote: >Go to the select screen, hit 'o', go to the top of the updated packages >section (the header), hit '='. There, all the updated packages are on >hold. My isn't that obvious. Not. >That's what placing packages on hold is good for.