Re: SEUL: TurboLinux

[Marcus Berglund <mabs@netdig.com.au>]

On 17 Aug 1997 jghasler@win.bright.net wrote:

>Marcus Berglund writes:
>> ...just tell them nothing and assume they don't actually care what else is
>> needed, because I know of alot of people that would get a little peeved
>> if they were told every 10 seconds that packages x & y were being
>> added...
>
>They will be even more peeved to discover that their disk is full because a
>package they requested installed Tex without telling them.  They also are
>likely to be confused when they find that something they never requested
>has been installed.  Always tell the user what is going on (though I don't
>care much for dselect's practice of telling me all the things it isn't
>doing).

Warn them in a small sub screen of extra packages being installed, and if
a package is bigger than a particular size, shade it red, too make it more
obvious

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