"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Actually, this behavior was supposedly fixed (dselect would only ask once about recommends), but I guess it hasn't made it into the archives yet. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
