Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.5 If I start up dselect, choose "select", and hit return without making any changes, I wind up with the following screen. I am not able to fathom the purpose of this screen, nor am I particularly interested in removing these packages from my system. [Of course, it's plausible that if I removed these packages then re-installed them that this artifact would vanish....]
dselect - recursive package listing +/-=select v=verbose ?=help HIOS Pri Section Package Description *** Std text ispell An interactive spelling corrector *** Opt tex dvipsk TeX DVI-driver for Postscript ** Xtr non-free gopherd Serves documents using the Internet Gopher+ Proto *** Xtr tex hyperlatex Creating HTML using LaTeX documents. ispell installed; selected (was: selected). Standard ispell recommends word-list interrelationships affecting ispell -- Raul
