On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 04:05:12PM +0100, Raphael Bauduin wrote: > Does that mean that if someone installs a package with dselect, dselect > will in any case install all those unwanted packages?
First, it's may be priority important, instead of standard. I've not used dselect in quite some time. > If I understand what you mean, you may not use dselect to install > packages, or you'll get some unwanted packages installed. Is that right? I don't know if dselect can be coaxed into installing fewer packages than it would prefer, but in any case, I don't think it's worth the hassle on cloned or mostly-cloned installations. I install irc and lynx (or w3m, or whatever text-mode browser) almost immediately so I can browse packages.debian.org and query the apt bot on #debian -- those services combined with apt-cache search have pretty well removed any need I had for dselect. Another thing to look into would be the Fully Automatic Installation page: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
