Package: general Version: N/A; Severity: normal perl packages' new versions, it seems, have caused an enormous array of package conflicts. dselect at the moment offers to remove over 180 packages from my system which I couldn't find a workaround for (including all of gnome, I guess) thanks -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux orion 2.2.13 #1 Wed Jan 12 08:03:57 EET 2000 i686