Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for >> slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just >> normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for > slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just > normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little > README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ . > > Is this the plan? How

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/ . Is this the plan? I'll try to be sure and

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Philip Jensen wrote: > > Anyway, does anyone know anything about pkgsel (which is a perl script). IIRC it is in fact a b/ash script, which uses whiptail to produce a nice colourful menu display of varying ways of configuring your shiny ne

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
ed in for the first > time called PKGSEL. This allows you to chose a basic initial installation. > However, this program/script cleverly deletes itself. I did a reinstall, > so I could back the file/s up before PKGSEL completed running, and deleted > itself. > > I thought this was

pkgsel

1998-11-24 Thread philipj
Hi I installed Debian v2.0, and after the first re-boot I am asked for a password for root. Ok, no problem so far. But, I discovered an application which runs automatically after you have logged in for the first time called PKGSEL. This allows you to chose a basic initial installation