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Re: Problems upgrading a2ps (hamm)



On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 07:47:53AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:20:01PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > The latest packages update includes a2ps_4.10.2-4.  When I try to upgrade
> > > from 4.10-4 using dselect, it says that tetex-bin is recommended, but
> > > if I unselect tetex-bin, the dependency resolution screen comes back
> > > and selects it (and its dependencies) again.  Even selecting hold for this
> > > package doesn't work.  This should only happen for required, not
> > > recommended packages.
> > 
> > Isn't this just dselect being obnoxious? Hit Q to force dselect to give up.
> > 
> > Hamish
> > --
> 
> 
> 	The strange thing is I've seen it work both ways.  There must be two levels
> of 'recommended'.  One level is ok; but the more restricted level is the one
> Bob is talking about.  The problem with using 'Q' is you have to use *every*
> time you use dselect from that point on.  Not fun.  I'm with Bob,
> 'recommended' should *not* be so obnoxious.  Or maybe introduce another
> level between required and recommended.

Same happens with qt-dev recommending qt-doc !!! and some dict package
recommending a lexicon.

At least qt should be fixed. I just wanted top compile something, not really
develop.

Marcus

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