On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:02:16PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Why is it so hard to decline a "recommends" dependency? [snip dselect experience we have all had] > AGH! I have declined the recommendation. WHY WON'T DESELECT > JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! Reccommends == Depends as far as dselect is concerned.. > > Why does dselect report the Recommends dependency again when you > exit the main screen? because unfortuantly dselect treats Reccommends exactly the same way it treats Depends. i consider this behaviour broken as you also seem to. but i am not a C programmer so all i can do is make suggestions. personally i just use apt-get as much as possible and dselect as little as possible. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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