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Re: dselect, argh



On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> For some reason, dselect just decided to remove a whole bunch of
> packages that I CERTAINLY DID NOT MARK FOR REMOVAL, like
> lynx, apache, mutt, gs-aladdin, and goodness knows what else
> since I hit ^C. The available packages list looks fine, so they
> are not suddenly obselete. It just upgraded a whole lot of things
> fine but when I picked remove, when on its rampage.
> 
> Anyone else seen something like this? I will probably be spending
> a few hours fixing it now. Sheesh.

Have you, by any chance, forced dpkg to install or remove any packages
lately?

Remco


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