Many thanks for clearing that up. -Mike
_____________________________ Michael D. Marziani Systems Administrator -----Original Message----- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 8:31 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Desperately trying to understand dselect (seeming inconsistency) On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0500, Michael Marziani wrote: > You didn't really answer my question at all. I know I can 'Q', and > 'X' to get out of the dependency screen, I am wondering why dselect > cares so much about a 'recommend' that it traps me in a dependency > screen loop just because I don't want to take its 'recommendation'. > > So does recommend = require or what? I am just a tad confused, AFTER > reading all the docs I could find. It's a long-standing bug in dselect, and has been fixed in CVS. The fix didn't make it in time for woody, but will be in dpkg 1.10 in woody+1. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
