dselect - formally Re: Running as root

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:19:58AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:49:02PM +1000, Stephen Grant Brown wrote:
>>>> I am unable to use dselect for the inspection of packages in the Debian
>>>> distribution.
>>> Ok.  Unless someone steps forward who is willing to maintain dpkg, it
>>> will be removed from the distribution in a few days.
>> Is there any useful functionality actually provided by having dpkg for
>> Cygwin?  If there is I'll have a go, but if it's just a toy that
>> happens to compile, but you can't actually do anything useful with, I
>> don't see the point.
> 
> Um.  That would be the kind of thing that a maintainer would know the
> answer to wouldn't it?


Maybe that's why he skipped town. ;-)

 From my perspective, the current functionality can be likened to a version of
tar that only implements the "t" option flag.  I suppose it's in the eye of
the beholder as to whether dselect's limited functionality has some value but
I would posit that it's confusing to have the current functionality called
"dselect", since that implies more than this implementation is.


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