Re: Question about dselect:

[Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>]

"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> writes:

> On 20-Nov-2001 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? 
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately, no.  dselect will always try to enforce a Recommends.  In the
> resolution screen, Shift-R will revert all of dselect's additions and then
> Shift-Q will finish.

Actually, this behavior was supposedly fixed (dselect would only ask
once about recommends), but I guess it hasn't made it into the
archives yet.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>