Subject: Re: pkg_select updates
To: Mark Kirby <mark@coris.org.uk>
From: iMil <imil@home.imil.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/17/2005 13:44:58
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> Just tried it out. All i can say is wow. It's very easy to use and very easy
> to navigate through the pkgsrc tree. Excellent job.

thanks :)

> 1) what does a star next to a package name mean?
>    Does it mean that package is installed.

yes, maybe i should annotate something

> 2) How seperate is the gui from the rest of the program?
>    I would be happy to write a QT/KDE version either as a standalone program
>    or integrated into KDE's package manager (KPackage)

the big work on this soft concerns the curses interface, but yes, pkgsrc 
handling is separate as much as possible, see tools.[ch], pkg_adm.[ch], 
files.[ch], parsedirs.c and pkg_select.h

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