Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:14:07PM -0400, Anthony Fox wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Seems I wasn't careful enough when using dselect. I have been trying
> to remove the gnome libs and binaries that I don't use on my system.
> Somehow, I must have selected the wrong package for purging. Dselect
> now wants to remove from my system, among other packages, XFree86 and
> KDE. I don't want these packages to be removed. Is there some way
> that I can make dselect forgot about previous selections? That is, is
> there some way for dselect to just start over?
>
> Thanks,
> Anthony
No, not as far as I know. Look into deity. It's independent of dselect, and it
saves it state in ~/.captstate.
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