OK, I've started playing with dselect. I had avoided it after some unfortunate misunderstandings in my early Debian days. Now, after being much more careful about not touching *any* keys without knowing exactly what they do, and reading every screen carefully, I have come to understand the way it wants things done. Once that submission was complete, it seems pretty effective.
The only gripe I have is that it treats Recommends the way that dpkg treats Depends, so it drops me into conflict resolution *every* time I run it because I have suck installed, but no news-transport-system. Is there any good solution to this. I at least want something like "hold" for a given package, where I'm essentially saying, "I know I don't have the things this package recommends installed, and I don't care. Don't bother me about this one again." Perhaps there's an option I'm overlooking. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
