Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 12:47 PM, Kenward Vaughan said... > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:57:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > ... > > On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ... > > > i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring > > > that, i maintain th

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:57:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: ... > On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: ... > > i maintain that dselect should be showing me these errors. and barring > > that, i maintain that it should give me the option of seeing them, which it > > cur

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
[Please don't Cc: me on list mail, as per the Mail-Followup-To: header I set. Thanks.] On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 at 08:06:17 -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >i just removed netscape from my system. >

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Thu 07 Dec 00, 8:45 AM, Colin Watson said... > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >i just removed netscape from my system. > > > >an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the > >main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't > >be del

Re: why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-07 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i just removed netscape from my system. > >an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the >main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't >be deleted, but i don't know which one or why. Those errors are of

why not dselect (i now know the answer)

2000-12-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i just removed netscape from my system. an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't be deleted, but i don't know which one or why. at the very least dselect should prompt you to "enter a key" when an