Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Oct 1999 01:35:57 +0000 Received: (qmail 3326 invoked from network); 7 Oct 1999 01:35:56 -0000 Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (207.69.200.246) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 7 Oct 1999 01:35:56 -0000 Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtip2.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.203.34]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA03292 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:35:54 -0400 (EDT) Sender: craig@mindspring.com Message-ID: <37FBF8F9.6F676C11@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 18:35:53 -0700 From: "Craig H. Block" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.38 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: dpkg: dselect unruly with 4000 packages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.11 With the package count closely approaching 4000 for the potato release, scrolling through the whole package list in dselect is a laborious process and should be unecessary when simply looking for packages marked for install. I find this need occurs often and could save considerable time and eye strain if a supplemental "Packages Marked for Installation" section was added to the "by status" view.