Options

Selecting Options from the lim menu brings up a dialog box (Window 3.5) for configuring various lim options.

Description Mode

controls whether the description changes when you press button 2 or the description automatically tracks the pointer.

Transcript Mode

is either verbose or terse. Verbose causes lim to invoke the rpp programs with verbose options.

Available Packages Options

There are two options for available packages. The first is ``highest available versions only''. When this option is selected the available packages listbox will only display the highest version available for any given package (with the same name and type). The second is ``exclude installed packages''. When this option is selected (which it is by default), packages that are already installed, ie are listed in the installed listbox, will not be displayed in the available packages listbox.

Verify

There are two options that are used when you verify packages. You can verify the BSD checksum in addition to the ownerships and permissions, or you can check only the BSD checksum. The BSD checksum is useful for finding files that have been altered since they were installed.

Prefixes

This option controls whether or not lim warns you when you try to use prefixes that don't conform to conventions, or install a non-relocatable package under a prefix other than the default prefix. As the prefix and relocatability features will be removed in the next release of RHC Linux, you shouldn't really bother with this.

Uninstallation

You can have lim attempt to generate updates automatically when you uninstall a source package. When this option is enabled, lim will automatically generate update packages for source packages you have modified. As the update package feature will be removed in the next release of RHC Linux, you shouldn't really bother with this either.

Installation

You can have installations be clandestine (no record of the installation) or archive only (no control files, just the package archive), which are both usually a bad idea. See rpp-install(1) for details on these two options. You can also batch any after-install scripts. Some packages have scripts that run after installation, and some of those scripts may want to interact with you. If you are installing a lot of packages at once, batching the after-install scripts will cause them to run after all packages have been installed. This way, you don't have to sit and watch all the packages install themselves, responding every now and then to an after-install script.