Re: dselect sucks greasy cheese balls
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 11:56:45AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> Dselect is now trying to make design decisions on my computer against my
> wishes. I thought only GatesWare did that. But I digress.
>
> I have installed WordPerfect Office 2000 on my laptop. dselect reports these as
> brokenly installed packages but the apps work fine. The next time I use
> dselect, it then wants to uninstall all of these so-called broken packages when
> I try to install something else. I suspect the "brokenness" is due to the fact
> that I am using Woody, and that WPO 2000 was designed back when Potato was the
> current Debian system. But the application is working fine, and dselect is
> uninstalling it!!!
>
> How do I stop it from doing this? There must be some way to over-ride these
> actions.
You can put it on hold, but I suspect that the problem is not as you
describe, since I have WP8.1 which is even older on my system and
dselect doesn't complain at all (it just shows it as a local/obsolete
package.)
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