On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:10, David A. Cobb wrote: > > The first time I saw it, I explicitly selected "Install" the gcc-core. > > However, it keeps showing up as something to be installed. > > It still shows with the "new or omitted" packages view. > > My hypothesis is that, because it is a source-only package, setup never > > records it in INSTALLED.DB (?). > > Hey, I can probably edit the database myself - I'm pretty sure it's > > text. But that wouldn't solve the perceived problem. > > > Source packages do not get listed as installed. > If you want something that contains source to be listed as installed, > and uninstallable, you need a binary package that contains source code - > like the kernel-source packages on debian. > I think he and I just want clicking on all->install to not continually download those two packages. I didn't ever hand select them to begin with. I just get them continually for "free".
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