Re: Question about dselect:
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 01:08, Petro wrote:
> I have a little...issue with dselect.
>
> I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers,
> and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them.
>
> At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that
> wants to have libc6-dev, which is fine as far as that goes,
> but it seems that libc6-dev recommends that I install gcc, and it's
> rather most insistent that I install it, even if I tell dselect _
> (purge) and <shift-q> (Do what I tell you numbskull).
>
> Is there a way to tell dselect ONCE AND FOR ALL that I have no wish
> to install gcc on this machine?
'Tis this exact behaviour that's made me move to apt-utils, to install
packages, apt-get only installs the dependencys which is what I like (I
prefer to turn on bells & whisles not off). I know it's not what you wanted,
but that's my solution.
Ani
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