Re: dselect forcing recommends?
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:41:42PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So, I'm in dselect, and it says that icewm-common recommends icepref.
> Unfortunately, it's not just a recommendation, because it won't resolve the
> conflict without it selected for install.
You can tell dselect not to bother with the recommeded packages, by
pressing 'D' and then 'Q' in the dependency resolution screen.
'D' sets the package selections back to your direct selections.
'Q' commits the current selections without further depends checking.
'X' exits, disregarding any changes in selections. If you are confused
at any place in dselect, you can always keep hitting 'X' until you are
back at the main menu, and no changes will have been made effectively.
'Enter' will do what 'Q' does, but first it checks the dependencies
and if there are any unresolved ones found, you are prompted with a new
dependency resolution screen.
This is also explained more clearly in the help screen that always pops
up before the dependency resolution screen and that you can get back to
at any moment by pressing the '?' and 'i' keys.
> Is this a dselect bug?
In the sense that you are asking, no. You just need to press 'Q', not
'Enter'. It is a feature.
In another sense, it is clumsy at least that this has to be done every
time when there is an unresolved recommends: in the active package
selections. There are some patches for this, but I don't believe they
are in a dselect near you just yet (maybe soon in unstable).
Cheers,
Joost
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