Re: Annoying package dependence concept

["Joe Emenaker" <jemenake@lab.busfac.calpoly.edu>]

> From: Johannes Plass <plass@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de>
> Subject: Re: Annoying package dependence concept
> 
> Joe Emenaker <jemenake@lab.busfac.calpoly.edu> wrote:
> > Yes it does. You can hit "Q" to force dselect to accept things as you
> > have chosen.
> 
> Pressing "Q" causes dselect to momentarily forget about dependency
> conflicts.
> When installing the packages the user will certainly get lots of error
> messages
> related to unresolved dependencies.

Uh... not necessarily. When I installed mgetty, dselect wanted to include
ghostscript because mgetty "suggests" it or something. Ghostscript, of
course, wanted to bring along about 5 friends as well: libraries, fonts,
etc. etc. Since my reason for getting mgetty wasn't for faxing, I had
little use for ghostscript, so I deselected it and it's libraries, used 'Q'
to force dselect to accept it, and then I installed just mgetty. Works like
a charm....

- Joe

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