Re: problems with `dselect'

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:59:48PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> * Robert Millan writes:
> > Dselect should use settrans and friends directly when the __GNU__
> > macro is defined, and mount otherwise (for both GNU/Linux and GNU/*BSD).
> 
> One shouldn't use the __GNU__ macro.  Instead fix the scripts in dpkg
> ([dpkg]/methods) or make our mount command more GNU/Linux friendly.  I
> would suggest fixing the mount command.  It probably just doesn't
> support some silly option that dselect wants to use.

Why? the normal way to access a filesystem on GNU is settrans, not mount.
mount is just a hack that could be useful when programs like it,
but if it needs fixing anyway, supporting settrans would be best
(and less prone to errors occasionated by changes in mount syntax)

There was a bug report (by Marcus?) on APT discussing the cdrom access
mode IIRC

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992