On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Dieter Tremel wrote: > This means: > a) I have to stay with testing or reinstall the whole system > b) Smarter: I can hold dpkg and dselect from testing and downgrade all > the other packages with /etc/apt/preferences > right?
b is possible. > This leads to a separate and optional dselect package, does it? > Why then a > # dpkg -r dselect --force-all > is not possible? Because dpkg needs to support upgrades done by dselect. Dselect needs to always be in a working state in these cases. This pre-depends will be removed in a future release of debian.
