Re: deselect survey
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:46:52 -0500, Matt Barry <muramas@cyberdiscordia.org> said:
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:30 -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
>>
>> That's a mere artifact of our release cycle. Dselect only be came a
>> separate package in woody, and a clean upgrade required that
>> dselect be, er, required, by dpkg. I've had dselect uninstalled
>> since the early days of sarge.
> IIRC, dselect is a "required" package; when I try to "apt-get remove
> dselect" (sid), I am warned rather severely about the removal of 75
> packages, including several essential ones:
Well, since dpkg depends on dselect (in order to provide
smoother upgrades), dselect can't have a lower priority than
dpkg. Post sarge this can change.
manoj (मनोज श्रिवास्तव)
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