RE: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency)
You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and 'X'
to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect cares so
much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency screen loop
just because I don't want to take its 'recommendation'.
So does recommend = require or what? I am just a tad confused, AFTER
reading all the docs I could find.
-Michael
-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming
inconsistency)
on Thu, Mar 21, 2002, Michael Marziani (michaelm@kw.com) wrote:
> I finally took the dselect plunge. Aptitude is far easier, but I
> heard dselect can be more effective once it's mastered.
The primary difference: dselect walks you through package "recommends"
options. Generally, once you've got a system up and running, you don't
particularly need to worry about these, though you may want to manually
check packages down the road for any significant recommends listings
(use apt-cache for this).
Otherwise, aptitude's interface is a vast, vast improvement over
dselect. I still occasionally drop into dselect, but do most of my
package selection from the command line with 'apt-get install foo'.
> Ok.. For some strange reason dselect had a bunch of crap selected
> that I have no idea where it came from when I first entered dselect
> after a brand new minimum install. So I'm trying to un-select it all
> (D didn't work because it was previously selected), but when I try to
> un-select something that recommends another package, it won't let me
> unless I remove the other package, which in some cases is something I
> already have installed.
These are generally deps.
> Here's an example. I have vim installed. When I started dselect, it
> had vim-rt selected (but not installed). So when I try to un-select
> vim-rt, I get a dependency resolution screen that looks like:
>
> EIOM Pri Section Package Description
> *- Opt editors vim-rt Vi IMproved - runtime support files
> **- Opt editors vim Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
>
> Well I want to keep vim, so I do a + on it, and hit enter, well then I
> get another dependency resolution screen:
>
> EIOM Pri Section Package Description
> -* Opt editors vim-rt Vi IMproved - runtime support files
> *** Opt editors vim Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
>
> But I don't want vim-rt, so I - it, and hit enter, and I get the same
> screen again. What's the deal here?
RTFHS [1]. You want 'Q' to override suggestions and quit. 'D' will set
all options to directly requested state.
Peace.
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Notes:
1. Read the f-cking help screen.
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