G'day, all. How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already installed, merely because the Debian version has changed?
Really, it is intolerable that that happens. It can cost a lot of money in download fees. I have attepted to defeat it by general freezes, but that makes it a lot of work to select something when I want to upgrade. It is made worse by the terrible practice of splitting up the author's source into multiple Debian packages. Several weeks ago I decided that my Debian system had become totally unmaintainable. That was after I had modified a lot of selections so I could install something, and dselect for some reason told me that if I went ahead it would uninstall 90% of my system. I guess, instead of looking at thousands of listed packages I was doing group selections. I have reached total lockup. Please reply to the list, because I'm not going to ask again if no replies show up. Apologies if you've recently discussed it - I've resubscribed to the list only to ask this question. Regards, Michael Talbot-Wilson
