Re: dselect oddities
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
: On Fri, 15 May 1998 10:56:44 -0500 (CDT), Nathan E Norman wrote:
:
: >: Am I the only one who feels that dselect should not update packages
: >: unless explicitly told to?
:
: >Could you be more specific? I've never had dselect update a package if
: >I didn't want it to ... I place those packages on hold.
:
: Exactly. If you didn't explicitly put it on hold it would update it
: automatically. It should be reverse, IE, on hold until I tell it to update.
But isn't that the point of a packaging system? This way, bug-fixes,
security fixes, etc. are integrated into the system simply by running
dselect every now and then. deselect *does* present you with a list of
what it's going to update (or more correctly, updated packages).
If you want everything on hold, then place everything on hold :)
I'm not trying to be flippant, but you still haven't listed a specific
example of where the default behavior is wrong, so I'm not sure where
you're coming from.
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