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Subject: Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED]
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The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver
recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and
perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect
silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything
which had a direct or indirect dependency upon either. Ouch!!!
Now that I've removed xscreensaver, everything's back to normal.
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