Re: dselect problem with potato [RESOLVED]

2000-01-31 Thread Gregory T. Norris
The problem turned out, rather unexpectedly, to be that xscreensaver recommends the virtual package "perl". Since both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 conflict with "perl" (providing "perl5" instead), dselect silently selected them for removal... which chained down to everything which had a direct or in

Re: dselect problem with potato

2000-01-30 Thread Gregory T. Norris
On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 01:07:02AM -0500, paul wrote: > Please read this earlier thread (on this list): > "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." > > I hope this answers your questions. Thanx for the pointer!

Re: dselect problem with potato

2000-01-30 Thread paul
Please read this earlier thread (on this list): "BEFORE YOU UPGRADE TO POTATO LOOK AT..." I hope this answers your questions. -ptw-