AW: Is this the right place for Dselect discussion
> > better. Unfortunatly dselect still tries to configure packages which are
set
> > on hold.
>
> Hmm. Yes, you're right, that's counter-intuitive. However, it *is*
> correct behaviour.
>
> If a package is installed, but unconfigured, it's broken. It must
> either be uninstalled, or configured, but there's no way of
> leaving it
> like that. 'Hold' means it won't be updated to a new version, but it
> won't stop it being configured.
>
Well what about if dselect stops if a brocken package can't be configured,
removed, etc? All the following packages get into brocken state as well,
maybe producing more unsolvable errors as well.
O. Wyss
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