Re: tasksel tries to install packages
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 05:10:25PM +0200, Yildiz, Murat wrote:
> I know that if I mark it with '_' it will not ask me again, I am trying to
> find out how it came to that point?
dselect stores everything it's seen in /var/lib/dpkg/status. If it finds
that there is a newly available package not recorded in
/var/lib/dpkg/status, it will check to see whether it's a high-priority
package and if so offer it for installation.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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