Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote:
> Hello debian folk,
>
> I occasionally use dselect because it has some niceties which apt-get does not
> have... however the firt time I run it, it has the "default package selection"
> already set to install?! Is there a way to tell dselect to ignore the default
> package selection other than paging up and down and unselecting every item?
dselect has a somewhat strange user interface. There are 4 ambiguous
commands (Capital means CAPITAL!):
Key-stroke Action
Q Quit. Confirm current selection and quit anyway.
(override dependencies)
R Revert! I did not mean it.
D Damn it! I do not care what dselect thinks. Just Do it!
U Set all to sUggested state
From Debian reference". See URL below.
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I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
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