Quoting Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Right, so I could go to the top level, hit = and put a hold on the entire > list then, right? That'll probably do what I want. > > What I'm curious about is why this is done in the first place. My > situation is this, and I don't think it's uncommon: > > 1. I'm running the latest stable for the base system on most things. > 2. Every now and then I want the "latest" something, be it Vim, Mutt, > whatever, so I temporarily point at unstable.
I don't think dselect was ever written to handle more than one distribution. > 3. I go into dselect to browse the packages I want, with no desire > whatsoever to upgrade the entire system to unstable, and it's already marked > my entire system for upgrade. > > Personally, I think that's bad default behaviour. You should have to ask > for it explicitely. You might try the following workaround, though it's untested as I don't use dselect: 1, 2. As above. 3. Do this as a user, not root. That way you're limited to read-only access. 4. Restore it to point at stable. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
