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Fwd: Re: dselect oddities



On Fri, 15 May 1998 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT), Scott Ellis wrote:

>Go to the select screen, hit 'o', go to the top of the updated packages
>section (the header), hit '='.  There, all the updated packages are on
>hold.

    My isn't that obvious.  Not.

>That's what placing packages on hold is good for.  There are simple ways
>of marking everything on hold if you want to.  Don't change the documented
>and standard behavior, I assure you that I'll be very put out if dselect
>suddenly stops upgrading my system when I run it.

    That is what a nice, simple command line parameter or configuration would
be good for, we'd both have out default behavior, now wouldn't we?



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