On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> There's one problem:  dselect is retarded WRT "Recommends".  That is,
<...>
> you.  Annoying.  Fortunately, you can tell dselect "No really, I want
> you to not install package foo" by typing 'Q' to exit the resolution
> screen, but it's still a PITA.

I would say persistent rather than retarded.

Dselect works best if you have a good grasp of the packaging system,
and consequently know when to use "Q" or "X" and when to fall back to
dpkg -i...


- Bruce


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