Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > > So following another suggestion on this list, I went into dselect > and tried to put some stuff on Hold. Only thing is, dselect's > "Select" option sucks! sucks! sucks! > > Maybe if I spent a few weeks learning all the nuances of dselect > I could figure out how to work it, but the help screens indicated > that I could just select something like "Required Updated > Packages" and put that on Hold. But then dependency screens came > up, so as per the help screens, I pressed "R" to restore things > to the way they were, then I pressed "X" to exit and abandon all > changes. But when I went to the "Install" option to try the full > download again, all of a sudden the size of my download doubled. > From there it just went downhill. >
Well, what I do is put the the stuff on hold, when it throws me into the conflict resolution screen, I put all THAT stuff on hold too. Then continue on.
