Re: dselect woes
On Tue, 25 May 1999 dmacdoug@hsc.usc.edu wrote:
> Is it true that you can spend hours going through and selecting certain
> packages for installation and then, innocently select a package that
> happens to conflict with some other important package which is a
> required package for about a hundred or two other packages, and so, in
> a flash, dselect goes through and deslects all your tediously chosen
> packages without even giving you the option to say "oops I didn't
> really mean that?" Surely there's a way to back out of such an
> innocent mistake without having to go back through that whole list and
> reselect everything?
Yes, as soon as you get to conflict resolution and see that dselect wants
to remove a bunch of stuff, try R
Think REVERT.
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