Re: dselect oddities
On 17 May 1998 18:26:36 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> You put unstable in dselects install list. You then proceeded
> not to tell dslect to put ewverything on hold (as I have explained
> earlier, this involves hitting = twice on the right line in dselect).
Which I didn't know I could do.
> You then proceeded to install. Not currently being able to
> read minds, dselect did what you told it to -- not what you
> meant. Mind reading software is at least a decade away.
No, it didn't do what I told it to do. I didn't tell it to install
anything. I, as a newbie to Debian, was not aware that dselect would
mindlessly update.
> Why did you think dselect would just upgrade applications and
> not libraries?
I didn't.
>Why did you not put stuff on hold?
Unaware of it.
>Why on earth did you place unstable in the path in the forst place?
To get the latest versions of applications with features that I am used
to.
Manoj, I've explained all of this at least half a dozen times. WTF are
you asking once more?
> dpkg -i slrn*.deb would have worked, or told you about missing
> libraries, if any.
And that assumes, again, that I downloaded it. dselect is an all-in-one
process. Quit jumping from one pardigm to another.
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