Re: Notebook install
On 25 Apr 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com> writes:
>
> > I believe this is a fresh install. I have recently learned that
> > dselect automatically selects every package of standard or higher
> > priority the first time it sees it. You have to hit `D' (Shift-D) to
> > make it revert to directly requested packages. emacs19 and emacs20
> > are both Priority: standard.
> >
> > Personally, I think this behavior of dselect is evil, especially
> > now that the install script offers preselections.
>
> If your using profiles, you're supposed to skip the '[S]elect' step. This
> is very clearly indicated and well documented
I seem to recall having problems when I skipped this step. Something like
no packages being selected that apt could see. It has been quite a while
since I did this, so I could be comletely wrong now (assuming something
has changed).
Brandon
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