Andreas Tille wrote: > > Under the subject: dselect error > I posted some odd things. > > Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors > dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes > and now I get messages of the type: > > leaving: stable/.../package.deb > > for each package. But it takes a terribly long time (about 5-10 seconds > per package) though nothing was installed. What is dselect doing in > this time???
It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages that were present before this instance of deselect. --Bob