Re: new to debian have questions
Joost Kooij wrote:
> In the case of a recommends:, it is usually a recommends: and not
> a suggests: for a reason. When you add a package with recommends:
> to your selections, dselect will propose the implied markings of the
> recommended: packages. But you can still easily change and override it,
> just revert the markings manually, or with the 'D' key, then override
> the automatic dependency resolver with the 'Q' key. If you were never
> supposed to use these, they would not have been programmed and prominently
> documented in the online help that is available in the package selections
> management mode.
The problem is that you don't only have to hit them once. Dselect would
continue nagging about the reccommends you didn't select every time you
used it. Luckily, there is a patch that seems to fix this behavior. If
it gets some testing and seems to work ok it may go into the mainline
dselect.
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see shy jo
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