Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > Hello debian folk, > > I occasionally use dselect because it has some niceties which apt-get does not > have... however the firt time I run it, it has the "default package selection" > already set to install?! Is there a way to tell

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Ian D. Stewart
On 2002.05.14 14:32 David Roundy wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most > minimal installation as possible. Then as I n

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin David Roundy quotation: > I know this isn't an answer to your question, but my recommendation would > be to try aptitude. It's much easier to use (at least for me) than > dselect, and doesn't always want to install suggested packages (unless you > tell it to). I also like aptitude. Its U

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the > most minimal installation as possible. Then as I need packages I will > apt-get them as needin

Re: frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread David Roundy
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:53:53AM -0400, Federico Grau wrote: > > When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the > task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most > minimal installation as possible. Then as I need packages I will apt-get > them as nee

frustration with dselect automatic package selection

2002-05-14 Thread Federico Grau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello debian folk, When I install a system (especially servers), I tend to choose the task-sel path and unselect everything, with the goal of getting the most minimal installation as possible. Then as I need packages I will apt-get them as needing th