Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.7 Severity: Important The setup: I'm using dselect to follow potato and want to have the following packages (among others) installed: vflib2 gpg-idea gpg-rsaref
I DO NOT want to have the following package installed: gpg-rsa (I still have some scruples about following the silly US software patent laws) The problem: I find it *impossible* to tell this to dselect. After leaving the select stage, I am thrown into the conflict resolution screen with a setup that looks something like this: (from memory as I'm not at home) *** vflib2 *** gpg-idea __* gpg-rsa I move down to gpg-rsa, press underscore so that I have *** vflib2 *** gpg-idea ___ gpg-rsa I press enter, and I'm thrown right back into the conflict resolution screen, with gpg-rsa selected again. I can't leave dselect unless I accept the selection of gpg-rsa, or deselect both gpg-rsa and vflib2. The problem, I believe, is that vflib recommends watanabe-font, which is unavailable. Somehow this unsatisfiable recommends is causing dselect to want to redo all of its recommends checking from the top, regardless of whether or not I've already been asked about a particular recommends. It's annoying enough when I have to re-answer the same question each time I go through dselect. It's downright unuseable when I can't select the set of packages I want to.
