Re: dselect error (more)

[Bob Clark <rlclark@penn.com>]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> Under the subject: dselect error
> I posted some odd things.
> 
> Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors
> dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes
> and now I get messages of the type:
> 
> leaving: stable/.../package.deb
> 
> for each package. But it takes a terribly long time (about 5-10 seconds
> per package) though nothing was installed. What is dselect doing in
> this time???

It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed.  Things like pakages
that were present before this instance of deselect.

--Bob