Re: dselect oddities
Hi,
Yes. See, in the current system, I have to manually go and put
on hold all packages I do _not_ want updated. In the reverse system,
you have to go and manually mark alll packages you _do_ want updated
(whether new, or old packages you feel need updating).
These systems are exactly symmetrical.
In order to get this reversed system, you have to explicitly
take two actions _every time_ you run dselect. Though not ideal, it
is a reasonable work around. In order to get this feature into dpkg,
please send a message to submit@bugs.debian.org, with the first three
line of the *Body* of the message being:
______________________________________________________________________
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.22
Severity: wishlist
______________________________________________________________________
Please changes the version to the version you have on the
machine. After that, enter your feature request; this is the correct
way of getting the request to the developers in charge of the
package.
If you have the Debian package bug; then this can be as easy
as saying:
% bug dpkg
And bug shall set up a file to be edited (remember to put in the line
Severity: wishlist)
manoj
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