Randy Gobbel writes ("How to make dselect shut up?"):
> I've installed xpaint on my system, and every time I run dselect it complains
> about pbmplus being unavailable--even though pbmplus has been superseded by
> netpbm, and I have netpbm installed. Is there some way to get deselect to
> stop complaining about this non-problem? I could go and hack on some files in
> /var/lib/dpkg, but that would only work until the next time I do an upgrade
> via ftp. It would be nice to have an option in dselect/dpkg to mark something
> as "yeah, I know, enough already" or something like that.
Which package is it that wants pbmplus ? The real solution is to get
that fixed so that dselect has the right information.
I agree that an `I know already' option would be a good idea. Don't
hold your breath waiting for me to implement it.
> Also: there doesn't seem to be any straightforward way to downgrade a package
> using dselect. There are times when this could be important, like when you
> upgrade and it unexpectedly breaks something vital.
Use dpkg by hand.
Ian.
