Re: DSELECT question
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Andy Mortimer wrote:
> On Jun 3, Fredrik Ax wrote
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
> >
> > > Dselect in that respect works fine for me. I am however upset with dselect
> > > when using cdrom/mounted access methods. In those cases dselect does want
> > > to see all of the packages mentioned in Packages file present. Even those
> > > that you've chosen not to install. It also ignored symlinks across
> > > filesystems.
> >
> > I agree with you that it is a bit irretating that deselect scans for ALL
> > pakages ... I can see that it's done for consistency reasons, BUT it would
> > be great if there was a switch to turn this off.
>
> I'm afraid you've got slightly the wrong end of the stick. ;) Using the
> default methods, dselect scans through all *files* under the tree you
> point it at, and for each one checks to see if it needs installing. There
No, what I have experienced is dselect trying to find all files mentioned
in Packages and stop at the point where the package is missing. I'll try
it again with when I have time and report if it is really happens.
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