Re: Dselect/dpkg feature request
In article <[🔎] 199702231411.JAA00230@vanzandt.mv.com> you write:
>
>Steve McIntyre quotes the suggestion
>>>...maybe we can change the package structure a little, so
>>>we can include a comment in the control file, and why a package is
>>>reccomended or suggested.
>
>I agree this information would be useful. However, can't it be
>included in the Description field?
It could be I suppose, but I think it would be most useful if the reason
was shown in the conflict/suggests screen in dselect. I'd have thought
that would be easiest to implement using a new field.
--
Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. stevem@chiark.greenend.org.uk
<a href=http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/>My home page</a>
"Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +------------------
"Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I..." |Finger for PGP key
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com
Reply to: