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Re: new to debian have questions



Mart van de Wege wrote:
> Aye, there's the rub: IT DOESN'T! Sorry for shouting, but the way dselect
> handles suggests and recommends is braindead, to say the least.
> If I want to install some package and not the suggests that go with it, I
> can forget about dselect, unless I use shift-q to override the package
> selection, which frankly defeats the purpose of dselect in the first
> place, doesn't it?

a. You mean the recommends that go with it, not the suggests.
b. Your information is outdated, this bug has been fixed or at least
   worked around. See my recent dselect patch.

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