Re: apt-get question

[Will Lowe <harpo@UDel.Edu>]

> What exactly do you mean "it rolls through every single package
> on the dist"?  If you mean what it sounds like, you only have to

I think what he means is that when you install from CD,  it rolls through
the CD and checks every packages against the list of selections,  like:
Skipping deselected package: bash
Skipping deselected package: bang
Skipping deselected package: beat
                     		
	Rather than just going to the packages it wants to install.  
I don't think that apt-get fixes this,  because apt-get doesn't let you
install from CD.  The issue is really with dselect's CD install method.

							Will


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