Ok... I hate dselect. How can I fix this?

1999-11-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
I remeber haveing heard something about timezone being an obselete package, but i wasn't sure. So, I stumbled upon it while looking for netdate, which disappeared, and I thought I could check to see if it was no longer used by selecting it and seeing what it said. Well, it said it conflicted with

Re: I hate dselect

1999-02-02 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, > dselect's "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! Yes. > But then dependency screens came up, so as per the help screens, I > pressed "R" to restore things to the way they were, then I pressed "X" to > exit and abandon all changes. You could probably try "Q". I don't think dselect passes

Re: I hate dselect

1999-02-01 Thread George Bonser
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > > So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect > and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's > "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! > > Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect > I could figu

Re: I hate dselect

1999-01-31 Thread Paul Miller
Kent West wrote: [snip] > Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect > I could figure out how to work it, but the help screens indicated > that I could just select something like "Required Updated > Packages" and put that on Hold. But then dependency screens came > up, so as

Re: I hate dselect

1999-01-31 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:04:28 -0600, Kent West wrote: >Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect The problem is not dselect, the problem is your HD is too small. So do the sane thing which dselect does let you do, only inst

I hate dselect

1999-01-31 Thread Kent West
Sorry for wasting bandwidth on this list, but I just had to rant. I installed the base portion of potato, then after my first reboot chose "standard home workstation in the "slick-pick" part of the install. When I started to download the packages selected by that routine, I was told I don't have