On 16-Aug-99 Paul Miller wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> >> I ran dselect in order to add a few packages and to remove some I do not >> need, like CVS. Now, dselect insists on removing some packages I never >> asked it to remove and the worst part is that I cannot seem to fix this >> with dselect by changing "remove" to "install". >> > After selecting what to remove, does a dependancy screen come up in > dselect? That might be what you are describing above, but can't tell for > sure. > > You can circumvent the dependancy screen by typing Q (capitol Q) at the > main screen after selecting which packages you want removed. This will > tell deselect to bypass the dependancy screen.
I figured out what was going on. dselect was about to upgrade PERL and some other packages, and that is why it was going to remove packages I did not want removed. I had never seen this before, so I did not know. thanks -- Andrew
