Re: dselect question
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:55:38PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote:
> I selected some a package with dselect and then it automatically selected
> a *bunch* of dependent packages. Then I decided not to install the original
> package, but all the other packages it thought were dependent still try
> and install every time I run dselect even though the original package
> has been deselected.
Oops, you should have pressed 'R' or 'X' instead of 'Enter'. Now you've
committed all the selections you made with dselect's interactive package
selections management screen.
> Is there a file somewhere that I can purge that has all the pending for
> install packages so I can just wipe it out and start fresh again?
How about marking the relevant packages for removal or purge in the
dselect package selections list? It sounds intuitive enough to me that
if you can select packages in dselect, then you can also unselect them.
Admittedly, you'll have to look them up in the list, but that is not
so hard, and you can play with the 'o' and 'O' keys for sort options if
you like. And if you press '?', there is help at any time.
When you are finished altering the selections, simply run install.
Generally, walking the installed packages list in dselect once in a
while and removing packages you don't see a need for, is a good thing.
If you happen to try to remove something unexpectedly important, and a
large list of packages is marked for subsequent removal in the dependency
resolution screen, you can simply undo the removal request and all of
the consequences, by pressing 'R' and 'Enter' (or 'Q' or 'X'). Try it.
This way, you quickly get to know what packages are on your system for
what reason.
Cheers,
Joost
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