Re: dselect question

[David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU>]

Joel Dinel <kint@videotron.ca> writes:
JD> When I enter dselect and go to "[I]nstall and upgrade wanted packages",
JD> dselect wants to install 59 packages. I don't want these packages. How do
JD> I go about "flushing" the list of packages that dselect believes should be
JD> installed ?

Go to the [S]elect screen, and change those packages' status from
"install" to "remove" or "purge" (with - or _, respectively).

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