Re: [tlug] debian dselect

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com> writes:

    Brett> ahhhhhggggg, dselect thinks I want uninstall a heap of
    Brett> packages. Is there any way I can undo this? ie tell it to
    Brett> drop all of it's intended actions?

Try HOLDing everything in sight.  I forget how you do that in dselect.

Also, I think you can work directly with dpkg to get the dependencies
unwedged.

apt was quite a bit smarter than dselect about these things last I
looked.  The problem you run into with dselect is that if you tell it
to do something, you can generate a huge cascade of conflicts and
dselect respects what you explicitly said.  apt on the other hand will
usually tell you you can't do that without having your system implode,
and put your request on hold.  Apt also has the advantage that the
display distinguishes between things you've requested and things that
have been pulled in as dependencies.

I don't think there is a huge risk in switching to apt from dselect in
midstream, but it may be more pain and risk than you want to accept.


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