On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 24-Jan-01, 06:35 (CST), Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote: > > dselect keeps pissing me off trying to install all sort of crap I don't want > > because of Suggests, but *this is a bug in dselect*. > > > > We should be able to simply mark a package as in 'hold' 'uninstalled' > > 'purge' state and dselect should respect that and do not try to change the > > purge to 'install' because of a Suggests. > > Since when does it do this? I've never seen such behaviour. You're right. The selections which keep annoying me are Recommends, not Suggests. > Now, of course, if you meant "Recommends" instead of "Suggests", you're > absolutely right. Yes, that's it. I'd still like dselect to respect my express wishes NOT to install anything I set to held purge. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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