Re: dselect trying to remove lots of stuff

[Danie Roux <droux@tuks.co.za>]

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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