On 20-Nov-2001 Petro wrote: > I have a little...issue with dselect. > > I'm trying to set up a base configuration for a fleet of servers, > and I want certain software, and *only* certain software on them. > > At least one of these pieces of software is a perl modules that > wants to have libc6-dev, which is fine as far as that goes, > but it seems that libc6-dev recommends that I install gcc, and it's > rather most insistent that I install it, even if I tell dselect _ > (purge) and <shift-q> (Do what I tell you numbskull). > > Is there a way to tell dselect ONCE AND FOR ALL that I have no wish > to install gcc on this machine? >
Unfortunately, no. dselect will always try to enforce a Recommends. In the resolution screen, Shift-R will revert all of dselect's additions and then Shift-Q will finish.
