RE: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
This seems to be solved by Joey Hess's debconf which Debian is moving towards. You will see pieces of it in a potato install, woody will support it even more.

Re: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:55:09PM +, guran remberg wrote: > A Debian dilemma. > > Myself and other newbies, which come to Debian to learn how to run a > small and properly confined Linux, may be called 'iconographs'. That is > to say we don't know the underlying commando structure of what pri

Re: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
guran remberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yesterday I sent the following proposal to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wrong person, and I imagine it won't get you anywhere; read the Debian Constitution to find out what the secretary does. This sort of thing should be sent to debian-devel or submitted as a b

Re: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
A Debian dilemma. Myself and other newbies, which come to Debian to learn how to run a small and properly confined Linux, may be called 'iconographs'. That is to say we don't know the underlying commando structure of what printing implies in Linux - but give us an icon of a printer and we stop ask

Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages

2000-11-01 Thread guran remberg
1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Proposal - simple textual wrapper for packages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello secretary, I want the simple mode of selecting packages, at the installation, to be stationary, and to be the starting point for a