Re: testing is broken
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:14:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:12:38AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:36:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:54:32PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > > > Users who say "I want all the optional packages", which every official
> > > > Debian statement says they should be able to do, get a vastly
> > > > confusing maze of conflicts.
> > > How do you get to say that? I was sure you could, but it doesn't seem
> > > to be listed in the dselect help.
> > The definitions of optional and extra tend to suggest it, for one thing.
>
> I mean, you run dselect, and then press what buttons to select all
> of optional? Is there an easier way than just going through every package
> and hitting + unless it's extra?
Citing from the screen you see after starting dselect select and
pressing space to see the packages list in the lower half:
"The line you have highlighted represents many packages; if
you ask to install, remove, hold, &c it you will affect all
the packages which match the criterion shown."
THis works for every line not containing a package, except for
the first line. And it really won't make much sense, there.
So you just skip down to the line "--- Available Optional
packages ---" and press '+' there; and watch a bunch of
conflicting packages.
Ingo
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